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The Drama is Coming Now Hardcover – October 1, 2005

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This engrossing book presents the first collection in more than three decades of one of America’s finest drama critics. Richard Gilman chronicles a major period in American theater history, one that witnessed the birth or spread of Off-Broadway, regional theater, nonprofit companies, and avant-garde performance, as well as growing interest in plays by women and minorities and in world drama. His writing, however, is more than a revealing look at an era. It is criticism for the ages.
Insightful, provocative, and impassioned, the articles represent the full range of Gilman’s interests. There are essays, profiles, and book reviews dealing with such topics as the “new naturalism” in theater, Brecht’s collected plays, and the legacy of Stanislavski. There is also a generous sampling of Gilman’s comments on plays by O’Neill, Miller, Chekhov, Albee, Ibsen, Anouilh, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Fugard, and many others.

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    384 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Yale University Press
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0300100469
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0300100464
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“A splendid and valuable book.”—Stanley Kauffmann


“At last, the Richard Gilman collection for which we've been waiting too long. A great essayist, yet also a master of the short form, he casts wisdom and generous wit over a recalcitrant art. Reading him by way of these gorgeously phrased celebrations and lamentations is like reading the best dramatists at the height of their passions. Beckett and Chekhov are his emblems, and like them he's a serene, if embattled, original presenting cascading images of a truly examined life.”—Gordon Rogoff, author of Vanishing Acts




“At last, the Richard Gilman collection for which we’ve been waiting too long. A great essayist, yet also a master of the short form, he casts wisdom and generous wit over a recalcitrant art. Reading him by way of these gorgeously phrased celebrations and lamentations is like reading the best dramatists at the height of their passions. Beckett and Chekhov are his emblems, and like them he’s a serene, if embattled, original presenting cascading images of a truly examined life.”—Gordon Rogoff, author of Vanishing Acts




(Gordon Rogoff)

“Richard Gilman is one of those rare critics who, like Tynan and Kauffmann, is also a first-rate writer, his supple, acute and penetrating style comparable to those of our best novelists. The theater is fortunate he chose it as a topic.”—Jonathan Kalb, author of Beckett in Performance
(Jonathan Kalb)

“A splendid and valuable book.”—Stanley Kauffmann
(Stanley Kauffmann)

“The pieces gathered in The Drama is Coming Now are . . . deeply felt, scintillatingly reasoned and beautifully articulated.”

(Bert Cardullo American Theatre)

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In this collection of insightful writings, one of America’s finest drama critics chronicles thirty years of American theater history. Richard Gilman illuminates a period of dynamic change in theater through wide-ranging and provocative essays, profiles, and book reviews that reveal not only his sense of cultural mission but also his love of good art.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; First Edition (October 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300100469
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300100464
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches

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