This Is Not My Memoir

The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with André
This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities.
This is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between Gregory and Todd London who together create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?

London, Todd

Gregory, André

Humor & Entertainment

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Landmark summary of 13 meetings that brought together more than 120 artistic directors from the nation's leading nonprofit professional theatres.

The Artistic Home: Discussions with Artistic Directors of America's Institutional Theatres

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Theatre Communications Group

This is an astonishing, indispensable retrospective collection of essays, articles, reviews and reflections on artists by distinguished theatre critic and scholar Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists. The volume spans writings from 1988-2013 and is collected for the first time. A vital, important anthology for practitioners, scholars, students, and theatre-lovers everywhere.

The Importance of Staying Earnest

United States

lulu.com

Heralded by Publisher's Weekly as ""a writer to watch"" with a ""magnificent sense of character and ear for dialogue"", Todd London returns with If You See Him, Let Me Know, a stunning novel set at the crossroads of two generations--one marked by what it witnessed, the other by what it missed. It's August 1974, the eve of Nixon's resignation. Jerry Rosen is facing prison for a messy, white-collar crime. Before sentencing, he has to tell his son Philip, a teenager at a theatre camp in the Midwest. To the suburban kids at Friedkin camp, history is a game of dress-up. Tragic world events get retold as stage musicals--World War II as South Pacific, the Holocaust as Fiddler on the Roof. Anne Frank is a role to play--Philip's friend Kathy Klein plays it to the hilt. For Jerry, who served as an army medic in Germany, and for the camp's compassionate matriarch Lila Sahlins, the past can't be sung away. Jerry's confession unearths secrets that will change the course of Philip's life and trigger a pair of haunting disappearances. ""This is a killer coming-of-age story: gripping and compassionate. I haven't stopped thinking about it."" - Lisa Kron, Fun Home, the musical ""...An engrossing journey, culminating in a denouement that is surprising, gratifying, and eminently moving."" - Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter ""Todd London is a master conjurer of the lost--of lost youth, lost promise, lost Chicago, lost America."" - Adam Langer, Crossing California ""A novel that harrows the heart."" - Octavio Solis, Retablos

If You See Him, Let Me Know

Austin Macauley

An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted writer and arts commentator, Todd London, who spent nearly a decade assembling this collection. This celebration of the artists who came before is an exhilarating look backward, as well as toward the future, and includes contributions from: Jane Addams William Ball Julian Beck Herbert Blau Angus Bowmer Bernard Bragg Maurice Browne Robert Brustein Alison Carey Joseph Chaikin Harold Clurman Dudley Cocke Alice Lewisohn Crowley Gordon Davidson R. G. Davis Doris Derby W. E. B. Du Bois Zelda Fichandler Hallie Flanagan Eva Le Gallienne Robert E. Gard Susan Glaspell André Gregory Tyrone Guthrie John Houseman Jules Irving Margo Jones Frederick H. Koch Lawrence Langner W. McNeil Lowry Charles Ludlam Judith Malina Theodore Mann Gilbert Moses Michaela O’Harra John O’Neal Joseph Papp Robert Porterfield José Quintero Bill Rauch Bernard Sahlins Richard Schechner Peter Schumann Maurice Schwartz Gary Sinise Ellen Stewart Lee Strasberg Luis Miguel Valdez Nina Vance Douglas Turner Ward As well as the founding visions of theatres from across the country: The Actors Studio The Actor's Workshop Alley Theatre American Conservatory Theater American Repetory Theater Arena Stage Barter Theatre Bread and Puppet Theater The Carolina Playmakers The Chicago Little Theater Circle in the Square Theatre The Civic Repertory Theatre Cornerstone Theater Company The Federal Theatre Project Ford Foundation Program in Humanities and the Arts The Free Southern Theater The Group Theatre The Hull-House Dramatic Association KRIGWA Players The Living Theatre La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club The Mark Taper Forum The Mercury Theatre Minnesota Theater Company (Guthrie Theater) The National Theatre of the Deaf The Negro Ensemble Company The Negro Theatre Project, Federal Theatre Project The Neighborhood Playhouse New Dramatists The New York Shakespeare Festival The Open Theater Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Performance Group The Provincetown Players The Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center The Ridiculous Theatrical Company Roadside Theater The San Francisco Mime Troupe The Second City Steppenwolf Theatre Company El Teatro Campesino Theater '47 The Theatre Guild The Theatre of the Living Arts The Washington Square Players The Wisconsin Idea Theater Yale Repertory Theatre The Yiddish Art Theatre

An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art

Plays in this volume: Exchange at Cafe Mimosa, Berlin/Berlin Oona Hock Cajal Wants, Coaticook Lenora Champagne A Beautiful White Room, Landscape of Desire Barry Jay Kaplan Carry the Tiger to the Mountain, Know of Balance Cherylene Lee Acapulco Jacquelyn Reingold A Shoe is Not a Question Kelly Stuart Description: New Dramatists is a major resource for the development of American Playwrights. It serves as an artistic home, research and development center and national writers colony. Member playwrights and alumni have won 9 Pulitzer Prizes, 120 Tony Awards, 47 Obie Awards, 17 Drama Desk Awards and 9 Susan Smith Blackburn Awards. New Dramatists is the recipient of a 1991 Drama Desk Award "for decades of nurturing new American Playwrights".

New Dramatists: The Best Plays by the Graduating Class of 2000

Smith & Kraus Pub Inc

A dark, satirical first novel follows an American family as they struggle with grief over the death of an older son and the subsequent suffering of his younger brother.

The World's Room: A Novel

Literary

Steerforth Pr

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