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Real Life Drama

The Group Theatre and America 1931-1940

The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940

By Wendy Smith

By Wendy Smith

By Wendy Smith

By Wendy Smith

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Paperback $23.00

Aug 06, 2013 | ISBN 9780345805997

Ebook $14.99

Aug 06, 2013 | ISBN 9780307830982

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    About Real Life Drama

    Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today.
     
    Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith’s dramatic narrative brings the influential troupe and its founders to life once again, capturing their joys and pains, their triumphs and defeats. Filled with fresh insights into the towering personalities of Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Stella and Luther Adler, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb, among many others, Real Life Drama chronicles a passionate community of idealists as they opened a new frontier in theater.

    About Real Life Drama

    Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today.
     
    Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith’s dramatic narrative brings the influential troupe and its founders to life once again, capturing their joys and pains, their triumphs and defeats. Filled with fresh insights into the towering personalities of Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Stella and Luther Adler, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb, among many others, Real Life Drama chronicles a passionate community of idealists as they opened a new frontier in theater.

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    About Wendy Smith

    Wendy Smith is a contributing editor of The American Scholar. Her book reviews and author profiles appear frequently in The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. She has contributed articles to American Theatre magazine and… More about Wendy Smith

    About Wendy Smith

    Wendy Smith is a contributing editor of The American Scholar. Her book reviews and author profiles appear frequently in The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. She has contributed articles to American Theatre magazine and… More about Wendy Smith

    Product Details

    Category: Performing Arts | World History

    Paperback | $23.00
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 06, 2013 | 528 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780345805997

    Category: Performing Arts | World History

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 06, 2013 | 512 Pages | ISBN 9780307830982

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    Praise

    “This is the coolest, most objective, most valuable book on the Group Theatre we will ever get.” –Alfred Kazin

    “The Group Theatre was unique…. It was literally the voice of Depression America. Anyone interested in the Group has to know what is in this fine book.” –Arthur Miller

    “Required reading on the development of modern American theatre. Dense with character, incident, ideas.” —Library Journal

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