The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theater

A volume containing sixty years of essays, speeches, and manifestos by the founding mother of the resident professional theatre movement.

As a founder and artistic director of the flagship Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and chair of New York University’s Graduate Acting program, the late Zelda Fichandler changed the where and how of the American theatre. The Long Revolution gathers Fichandler’s most prescient writing about that movement, ranging over such topics as The Institution as Art-...