Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York (Performance Works)

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Winner, 2017 American Theater and Drama Society John W. Frick Book Award
Winner, 2017 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History 

Hillary Miller’s Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York offers an enchanting and comprehensive exploration of how the city’s financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices on this turbulent decade and beyond.

New York City’s performing arts community suffered greatly from a severe reduction in grants within 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 a lot of 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 live to tell the tale the crisis.

Combining theater history and close readings of productions, each and every of Miller’s chapters is a case study specializing in 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 focal point the large-scale changes wrought by the financial realignments of the day.

Nuanced, multifaceted, and engaging, Miller’s full of life account of the financial crisis and resulting transformation of the performing arts community offers an crucial chronicle of the decade and demonstrates its importance in understanding our present moment.


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