Drop dead [electronic resource] :performance in crisis, 1970s New York / Hillary Miller.
By: Miller, Hillary [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Performance works: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780810133907; 0810133903.Subject(s): Nineteen seventies | Recessions -- New York (State) -- New York | Performing arts -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York | Theater -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York | Performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century | Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 792.09747109047 Online resources: Full text available: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2013.
Introduction: City in crisis, performance in Crisis -- Planned shrinkage and the new theater : Ellen Stewart, La Mama e.t.c., and Julie Bovasso -- TKTS and "lost audience" anxiety : fiscal crisis Times Square -- Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Corps and the "inevitability of interdependency" -- The theater of poverty : Everyman in Coney Island -- How the public became a public : Joseph Papp's Civic Building -- The Brooklyn syndrome : BAM and outer-borough arts -- Conclusion. the myth of self-sufficiency.
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