Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781931404143)

Carey Perloff, former Artistic Director of San Francisco's legendary American Conservatory Theater, pens a lively and revealing memoir, and delivers a provocative and impassioned manifesto for the role of live theater in today's technology-infused world.

Perloff's personal and professional journey--her life as a woman in a male-dominated profession, as a wife and mother, a playwright, director, producer, arts advocate, and citizen in a city erupting with enormous change--is a compelling, entertaining story for anyone interested in how theater gets made. She offers a behind-the-scenes perspective, including her intimate working experiences with well-known actors, directors, and writers, including Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Robert Wilson, David Strathairn, and Olympia Dukakis.

Whether reminiscing about her turbulent first years as a young woman taking over an insolvent theater in crisis and transforming it into a thriving, world-class performance space, or ruminating on the potential for its future, Perloff takes on critical questions about arts education, cultural literacy, gender disparity, leadership, and power.

Carey Perloff is an award-winning playwright, theater director, and the artistic director of the American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco since 1992.

Author: Carey Perloff
ISBN-10: 1931404143
ISBN-13: 9781931404143
Publisher: City Lights Books
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2015
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2015
Booklist 03/15/2015 pg. 37