Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Cultural Calisthenics: Writings on Race, Politics, and Theatre

Robert Brustein

0/5 ( ratings)

Robert Brustein's new book is not simply a collection of his theatre writings. It also functions as a precise barometer of contemporary society, measuring the pressures of our current cultural climate. Never one to shy away from controversy, Mr. Brustein includes in this new volume accounts of his celebrated Town Hall debate with August Wilson over the issue of segregated casting; his spirited defense of the national Endowment for the Arts against its enemies on the political right; his eloquent response to the impact of political correctness on the theatre and the university; and his forthright criticism of what he calls "coercive philanthropy"--the tendency of funding agencies to impose their own political and social agendas on artistic institutions. He closes with deft portraits of some of the people he believes have enhanced the art of the theatre he has written about for more than forty years, including Chekhov, Brecht, Sam Shepard, Orson Welles, Eugene Ionesco, Stella Adler, Joe Papp, and William Shakespeare. Cultural Calisthenics shows Mr. Brustein at his best: an outstanding critic of drama and a prescient observer of our times.

Language: English

Pages: 291

Format: Paperback

Release: October 28, 1998

ISBN 13: 9781566632669

Cultural Calisthenics: Writings on Race, Politics, and Theatre

Robert Brustein

0/5 ( ratings)

Robert Brustein's new book is not simply a collection of his theatre writings. It also functions as a precise barometer of contemporary society, measuring the pressures of our current cultural climate. Never one to shy away from controversy, Mr. Brustein includes in this new volume accounts of his celebrated Town Hall debate with August Wilson over the issue of segregated casting; his spirited defense of the national Endowment for the Arts against its enemies on the political right; his eloquent response to the impact of political correctness on the theatre and the university; and his forthright criticism of what he calls "coercive philanthropy"--the tendency of funding agencies to impose their own political and social agendas on artistic institutions. He closes with deft portraits of some of the people he believes have enhanced the art of the theatre he has written about for more than forty years, including Chekhov, Brecht, Sam Shepard, Orson Welles, Eugene Ionesco, Stella Adler, Joe Papp, and William Shakespeare. Cultural Calisthenics shows Mr. Brustein at his best: an outstanding critic of drama and a prescient observer of our times.

Language: English

Pages: 291

Format: Paperback

Release: October 28, 1998

ISBN 13: 9781566632669

More books from Robert Brustein

The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Letters to a Young Actor: A Universal Guide to Performance

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Old Glory: Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Chekhov in an Hour

Voices from the Federal Theatre

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Dumbocracy in America: Studies in the Theatre of Guilt, 1987-1994

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Revolution as Theatre

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Winter Passages: Reflections on Theatre and Society

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Ruhl in an Hour

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Siege Of The Arts: Collected Writings, 1994 2001

Guide to the Season Plays 2015-2016

Demons

Boston Theater Marathon XXII Anthology

Demons

Enrico Iv (Plays For Performance)

The English Channel: A Play about Shakespeare

Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001-2005

The Siege of the Arts: Collected Writings 1994-2001

Everett Raymond Kinstler: The Artist's Journey Through Popular Culture, 1942-1962

Plays, Movies, and Critics

Rate this book!

Write a review?