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Book Review: The Fascinating Dribs and Drabs of Tennessee Williams’ Genius

This volume of one-act plays may gather up the whiffs and dregs of Tennessee Williams’ achievement, but their flashes of brilliance are valuable reminders of an artist who kept at his craft, come hell and high water, critical as well as popular.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Theater Tagged: American Plays, David Mamet, tennessee-Williams, Terrence McNally, The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays, theatre

Book Review: Mamet’s Minimal-Minded ‘Theatre’

Theatre by David Mamet. Faber and Faber, 157 pages, $22 Reviewed By Joann Green Breuer David Mamet’s concise and consistently frustrating book, Theatre, informs even while it infuriates, arguing for throwing out babes with the bath water as if theatre could, or should, make a splash without them. Get your towels out. But as you […]

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: David Mamet, Joann Green Breuer, Small Theatre Handbook, Theater, theatre

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