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Joy ride : show people and their shows
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- Creator
- John Lahr
- Included Title
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- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 569 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393246407, 039324640X
- OCLC
- ocn902661384
- Collection of profiles and reviews originally published in The New Yorker.
- Includes index.
- Part I: Playwrights. Arthur Miller. A view from the bridge -- August Wilson. Gem of the ocean ; Joe Turner's come and gone ; Seven guitars -- Tony Kushner. Angels in America ; Caroline, or Change -- David Mamet. The cryptogram ; Glengarry Glen Ross -- Sarah Ruhl. Eurydice ; Stage kiss -- Clifford Odets. Golden boy -- David Rabe. Hurlyburly -- Harold Pinter. Moonlight ; The room and Celebration -- Wallace Shawn. The designated mourner ; Grasses of a thousand colors -- Neil Labute. The mercy seat -- Sam Shepard. True West -- William Shakespeare. John Barton ; Hamlet ; The winter's tale ; Othello ; Macbeth ; King Lear -- Part II: Productions. Arcadia ; The pajama game ; The retreat from Moscow ; Private lives ; Company ; Sweeney Todd: the demon barber of Fleet Street ; Me, myself & I ; Oklahoma! ; The light in the piazza ; Orpheus descending ; The rose tattoo ; Carousel -- Part III: Directors. Nicholas Hytner. The history boys ; Ingmar Bergman. Madam de Sade ; The misanthrope -- Susan Stroman. The producers ; Mike Nichols. Death of a salesman