Theatre Journal 1960-1974

Writing theatre criticism for The Village Voice from 1957 to 1974, Michael Smith lucked into an extraordinarily dynamic period in American theatre. Broadway-style commercialism was stifling innovation in the early sixties. In response, a new alternative theatre emerged in lofts, storefronts, churches, and coffeehouses radiating out from Greenwich Village. This generous selection of reviews from Smith's "theatre journal" columns in The Voice gives a sense of the range, seriousness, and energy of the brilliantly imaginative artists he encountered in more than a decade of intensive theatre-going,

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Fast Books
Published: 07/10/2015
ISBN: 9780988716278
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.74d