Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America 1931-1940

Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America 1931-1940

by Wendy Smith
Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America 1931-1940

Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America 1931-1940

by Wendy Smith

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780345805997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/06/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 528
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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 is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women and the Board of Advisers of the ReGroup Theatre.

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