Drop dead performance in crisis, 1970s New York / [electronic resource] :
Hillary Miller.
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Performance works .
- Performance works. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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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