Traces the history of Broadway theater from 1900 to 1974, and assesses the most memorable productions of each era

Broadway

Arts & Photography

Atkinson, Brooks

Performing Arts

Macmillan

Traces the history of Broadway theater from 1900 to 1974, and assesses the most memorable productions of each era

The Lively Years 1920-1973 (Da Capo Paperback)

HIRSCHFELD, Al.

Da Capo Press

Broadway Scrapbook:

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Praeger

Music

Limelight

Broadway Scrapbook

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections

Literary Licensing, LLC

This Bright Land: A Personal View (The Brooks Atkinson Series)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

The Ardent Writer Press, LLC

In 1971, when Brooks Atkinson wrote This Bright Land, the modern conservation movement was being driven by new awareness of science's shortcomings. The early conservation movement, built on John Muir and Henry David Thoreau's appreciation of nature, was well aware of man's ability to outstrip his environment, but until the 1960s society still trusted man's ingenuity to fix any problem, even as mankind willfully depleted his natural resources.However, Rachel Carson's 1962 publication of Silent Spring demonstrated this trust was misplaced. Her research into the harmful effect of DDT demonstrated that mankind's incautious use of science and technology could destroy the environmental base, that it was a fragile base.It was instinctive then that a Thoreau student, such as Brooks Atkinson, would quickly understand not only the old dangers in mankind's choices, such as deforestation, but also newer problems such as hazardous chemicals, or air and water pollution, that threaten both flora and fauna in This Bright Land of America.

Broadway: A History of Theatre in New York City

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Very few men have had the impact on Broadway theatre as did Justin Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times from 1925-1960, and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1947. Excepting four years as a foreign correspondent during WWII, for 31 years Mr. Atkinson’s views in The Times were held in high regard by theatre-goers and industry producers, directors, playwrights, and actors, often making or breaking productions.
It is from this expert background that his descriptions of Broadway from the late 1800s through 1970, as reflected in his history of New York theater in Broadway are so valuable.
Whether you are a theater historian, or simply a theater lover, you will be spellbound by the parade of stars, writers, directors and producers in the many productions that made stage history for America.
Atkinson’s Broadway is not simply historical description. It is the emotions and reflections of the spirit-lifting and intellectual nuances of why Broadway remains a strength of American entertainment and soul, as much true today as it was during Atkinson’s time.
“It is in historical projects such as this one that Atkinson performs the ultimate connecting of the dots over long periods of time. We see him recognizing other decade-long patterns, … and continuing to elevate his impression of the astonishing creative outbursts that belied the Great Depression’s grueling hardship. The defining characteristics for him — the conclusions he always seeks — have to do with the fundamental originality of the works in question, and in what way they struggle with, or somehow shed new light on, real-life predicaments.”
Nancy Malitz
Founding music critic at USA Today
Editor, Classical Voice North America
Publisher, Chicago On the Aisle

Ardent Writer Pr

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