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Performance of the century : 100 years of actors' equity association and the rise of professional American theater / Robert Simonson.

Title
Performance of the century : 100 years of actors' equity association and the rise of professional American theater / Robert Simonson.
Author
Simonson, Robert
Publication
Milwaukee, WI : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2012.

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240 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Summary
Presents the history of the union in honor of its one hundredth anniversary, looking at how it handled such issues as the 1919 strike just six years after its founding, segregation, the blacklist years, and the AIDS epidemic.
Subject
  • Actors' Equity Association
  • Actors > History > United States > 20th century
  • Theater > United States > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Chapter 1 Beginnings -- "The Greatest All-Star Mob Scene Ever Seen" -- Chapter 2 Lighting Up a Nation -- One Theater at a Time -- Chapter 3 Troupers for Morale -- "You Bring the Shows, We'll Build the Ships!" -- Feature Focus on -- Stage Managers -- "Voice of God" -- Chapter 4 Equality -- Confronting Race Onstage -- and in the House -- Chapter 5 The Individual -- Actors Under Fire -- Chapter 6 Life and Legacy -- Not Standing Idly By -- Epilogue -- Two Views.
ISBN
  • 9781557838377 (hardcover)
  • 1557838372 (hardcover)
LCCN
^^2012015615
OCLC
781680062
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library