Hirschfeld: Art and Recollections From Eight Decades
A look at the new book by Al Hirschfeld from Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 306 PP., $50 cloth.
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Fear and Loathing and Amiri Baraka
A review of ‘The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader,’ edited by William J. Harris, ed., Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York. 540 pp, $24.95 cloth, $13.95 paper.
A Devotee’s Vision of Martha Graham
A review of ‘Deep Song: The Dance Story of Martha Graham’ by Ernestine Stodelle, Schirmer Books, New York, N.Y. 320 pp, $25.95 cloth.
Questions Without Answers
A new book dives into the theories of theatre. Plus: a Theatre Facts bookshelf.
The Critic as Puck
Jan Kott writes about the exchange between life and drama so artfully that it sometimes appears that history and literature have performed his critical tasks for him.
Serious Laughter
A new compendium of early 20th-century clowns is just that, a compendium, sans analysis, criticism, or context.
Consider the Trustee
Invaluable guides to board development, plus a survey of grant directories.
Stanislavsky Times Three
New volumes address a need for more English-language texts on an endlessly debated bit of Moscow Art Theatre history.
A Tantalizing Image of Anton Chekhov
Review of ‘Late-Blooming Flowers and Other Stories’ by Anton Chekhov; I.C. Chertok and Jean Gardner, trans., Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, NY, 252 pp, $8.95 paper, and ‘The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov,’ edited and with an introduction by Lillian Hellman; Sidonie K. Lederer, trans., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY. 331 pp, $22.50 cloth, $7.95 paper.
Management Bookshelf
New tomes on administration, marketing, and other topics.
