Theatre Journal 1960-1974

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
• | Publisher: Fast Books
• | Publication Date: Jul 10, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 356 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0988716275
• | ISBN-13: 9780988716278