Theatre World Volume 67: 2010-2011 - Hardcover

9781557838407: Theatre World Volume 67: 2010-2011

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557838402 ISBN 13: 9781557838407

Publisher: Theatre World Media, 2012

Now in its 67th year, Theatre World is the most comprehensive record of the theatrical season-Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, including listings for over 60 regional companies. Detailing more than 2 000 productions, each entry includes photos, a complete cast listing, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and plot synopses. Theatre World also features the year's obituaries, a listing of all nominees and winners of the major theatrical awards, the longest-running shows on and off Broadway, and a detailed index.

Highlights of the 2010-2011 season include the multi-award-winning musical The Book of Mormon. The National Theatre production of War Horse transferred to a successful Broadway engagement at Lincoln Center Theater, featuring the stunning puppetry of the Handspring Puppet Company. Larry Kramer's hit Off-Broadway play from the 1980s, The Normal Heart, was revived on Broadway with a star-studded cast, while Cole Porter's timeless classic Anything Goes had a glorious White Way revival at Roundabout Theatre Company's new Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The Signature Theatre staged Tony Kushner's Angels in America, while New York Theatre Workshop presented The Little Foxes, as well as Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to Peter Pan.

Theatre World continues its new tradition of including Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and Regional Theatre roundups written by accomplished theater critics, and includes over 700 photos of the season.

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From the Author:

I am proud to continue as editor in chief of this venerable publication, and particularly proud that we continue to evolve in our mission to cover as many professional theatrical productions in America as possible, from Broadway, to over sixty regional theatres' complete seasons. Moreover, the hundreds and hundreds of photographs included documents the entire American theatrical season like no other publication. --Ben Hodges

About the Author:

Ben Hodges served as an editorial assistant for seven years on the 2001 Special Tony Honor Award-winning Theatre World, becoming the associate editor to John Willis in 1998 and editor in chief in 2008. Theatre World-at sixty-seven-is the most current and complete annual pictorial and statistical record of the American theatre, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions.

In 2011, Ben founded Theatre World Media, which publishes both Theatre World and its sister publication, Screen World--the oldest pictorial annual record of the foreign and domestic film seasons, edited by Barry Monush.

The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals, which Hodges co-edited with late Commercial Theater Institute director Frederic B. Vogel, was released by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books in 2007, has had multiple printings and has become the definitive resource in its field.

Forbidden Acts, the acclaimed first collected anthology of gay and lesbian plays from the span of the twentieth century, edited and with an introduction by Hodges, was published in 2003 and became a finalist for the 2003 LAMBDA Literary Award for Drama, and has had multiple printings.

His Out Plays: Landmark Gay and Lesbian Plays from the Twentieth Century, was released by Alyson Books in spring 2008. With Out Plays, Hodges became the most prolific single anthologist of published gay and lesbian American plays either in or out-of-print.

His highly acclaimed The American Theatre Wing Presents The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them, with essays and interviews by nineteen of America's foremost American playwrights was released by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books in fall 2009 and has had numerous printings.

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