Title Drop dead : performance in crisis, 1970s New York / Hillary Miller

Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Performance works Performance works. Contents 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 Summary Hillary Miller's Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New Yorkoffers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city's financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond. New York City's performing arts community suffered greatly from a severe reduction in grants in the mid-1970s. A scholar and playwright, Miller skillfully synthesizes economics, urban planning, tourism, and immigration to create a map of the interconnected urban landscape and to contextualize the struggle for resources. She reviews how numerous theater professionals, including Ellen Stewart of La MaMa E.T.C. and Julie Bovasso, Vinnette Carroll, and Joseph Papp of The Public Theater, developed innovative responses to survive the crisis. Combining theater history and close readings of productions, each of Miller's chapters is a case study focusing on a company, a production, or an element of New York's theater infrastructure. Her expansive survey visits Broadway, Off-, Off-Off-, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, community theater, and other locations to bring into focus the large-scale changes wrought by the financial realignments of the day. Nuanced, multifaceted, and engaging, Miller's lively account of the financial crisis and resulting transformation of the performing arts community offers an essential chronicle of the decade and demonstrates its importance in understanding our present moment.--Provided by publisher Notes Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2013 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Nineteen seventies. Recessions -- New York (State) -- New York Performing arts -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Theater -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. Nineteen seventies Performing arts Performing arts -- Economic aspects Recessions Theater Theater -- Economic aspects New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780810133907 0810133903

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