theatre journal 1960-1974 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780988716278)

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,

Author: Michael Townsend Smith
ISBN-10: 0988716275
ISBN-13: 9780988716278
Publisher: Fast Books
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2015
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.74d