Isaac Butler
Author
Language
English
Description
The oral history of Angels in America Now, on the 25th anniversary of that Broadway premiere, Isaac Butler and Dan Kois offer the definitive account of Angels in America Expanded from a popular Slate is both a rollicking theater saga and an uplifting testament to one of the great works of American art of the past century, from its gritty San Francisco premiere to its starry, much-anticipated Broadway revival in 2018.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxi, 489 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward comes the first cultural history of Method acting-an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood. On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century ago, amid tsarist Russia's crushing repression, one of the...
