Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001-2005
Robert Brustein
Abstract
This book offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. The author examines crucial issues relating to theater in the post-9/11 years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and established performers, and theatrical production throughout the world. He relates our theater to our society in a manner that reminds us why the performing arts matter. The book records the author's thinking on the important issues “roiling the national soul” at the start of the twenty-first century. His opening section explores the connections between theater and society, theater and politics, and th ... More
Keywords: American stage, theater, theatrical production, performing arts, society, politics, religion, national soul, The Producers, King Lear
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300115772 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300115772.001.0001 |
