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This is the first published resource on the life and seventy-year theatrical career of award-winning actress Eva Le Gallienne. It traces Le Gallienne's acting debut in 1914, her travels to the United States, and the successes and failures of her New York City repertory theatres. Also noted are Le Gallienne's critically acclaimed performances in such plays as "Liliom," "The Swan," The Master Builder, "Hedda Gabler," "The Three Sisters," "The Cherry Orchard," "The Seagull," "Camille," "Romeo and Juliet," "Alice in Wonderland," "Mary Stuart," and "The Royal Family." The book covers not only...

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The first full-length biography of stage actress Eva Le Gallienne traces her life from her birth into the troubled but fascinating household of Richard Le Gallienne, British writer and intimate member of the Oscar Wilde circle, to her recent death.

This comprehensive biography of the actress Rex Reed called "a national treasure" draws upon Robert A. Schanke s interviews and correspondence not only with Le Gallienne but also with more than one hundred of her colleagues and friends, including Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Peter Falk, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Farley...

Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

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This comprehensive biography of the actress film critic Rex Reed called a national treasure draws on Robert A. Schanke s interviews and correspondence not only with Eva Le Gallienne but also with more than one hundred of her colleagues and friends, including Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Peter Falk, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Farley Granger, Jane Alexander, Uta Hagen, and Rosemary Harris. Forty-two illustrations offer highlights of Le Gallienne s many notable performances in such plays as "Hedda Gabler," " Liliom," " The Cherry Orchard," " Peter Pan," " Camille," " Mary...

In this first publication of six plays by the flamboyantly uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (1893 1968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke rescues these lost theatrical writings from the dusty margins of obscurity. Often autobiographical, always rife with gender struggle, and still decidedly stageworthy, "Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta" constitutes a significant find for the canon of gay and lesbian drama. In her 1960 autobiography "Here Lies the Heart, " de Acosta notes that as she was contemplating marriage to a man in 1920, she was "in a...