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Subject(s)

• Fichandler, Zelda 1924-2016 [Browse]
• Women theatrical producers and directors—United States—Biography [Browse]
• Theater—United States—History [Browse]
• Theater—Production and direction—United States [Browse]
• Theater and society—United States [Browse]

Editor

London, Todd [Browse]

Summary note

"Zelda Fichandler is one of the founding visionaries of the theatre movement in America. From the creation of Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage in 1950 with her husband Thomas, through her later stewardship of the acting training programs at both at NYU and Julliard, Zelda spent over sixty years speaking, writing and observing the rise and impact of the art of theatre in the U.S. She has relentlessly questioned the very field that she, as much as anyone, created. Her essays and speeches capture both the play of her own dazzling mind, and the aspirations and contradictions of the theater she pioneered. This first-ever collection of Zelda Fichandler's writings is edited by Todd London, who was personally chosen by Zelda to complete this book before she died"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / by Nikkole Salter
• Introduction / by Todd London
• Dedication, an introduction / by Zelda Fichandler
• Institution as artwork
• The open stage
• Groundbreaking ceremony
• Theater and human identity
• Artists set the stage
• The lying game
• To the actors and faculty
• To the faculty and students
• To the actors
• Playing
• The three sisters by Anton Chekhov
• A doll house by Henrik Ibsen
• The true word : The crucible by Arthur Miller
• One hand away : Awake and sing! by Clifford Odets
• The future of the resident professional theater in America
• Theaters or institutions?
• Arena at twenty-five
• The long revolution
• Towards a deepening aesthetic
• Casting for a different truth
• Remarks at the Ford Foundation
• Our town in our times
• On creativity
• Creativity and the public mind
• On risk and money
• Oral statement on the FY 1991 appropriation for the NEA for the Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations
• A hard time for the high arts
• The profit in nonprofit
• Whither (or wither) art?
• Robert Prosky : at twenty
• A tribute to Alan Schneider
• Jane Alexander
• Robert Alexander
• Liviu Ciulei
• Peter Zeisler
• The Zelda Fichandler Award
• A permanent classical repertory theater in the nation's capital.

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ISBN

• 9781559369756 (paperback)
• 1559369752 (paperback)

LCCN

2022052436

OCLC

1356577041

RCP

N - S

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