What is theatre? : incorporating the dramatic event and other reviews, 1944-1967 / 2nd ed.

Table Of Contents:
Introduction ix

Donald Lyons
Preface xxxiii
The Dramatic Event

Professional Playgoing 3(5)

Pity His Simplicity 8(4)

Merchant Of Venice, Long Island 12(4)

Eugene O'Neill's Pieta 16(3)

Maiming the Bard 19(3)

Pickwick in Love 22(3)

The Case Of O'Casey 25(3)

Hitch Your Star to a Wagon 28(3)

What is Acting? 31(3)

Charlie Chaplin's Mea Culpa 34(3)

The Poet in New York 37(3)

It's All Greek to Me 40(3)

The Pink and the Black 43(3)

I Have a Bright Idea 46(3)

Lillian Hellman's Indignation 49(3)

Acting: Natural and Artificial 52(3)

Acting vs. Reciting 55(3)

Guilding the Lilli 58(4)

The Innocence of Arthur Miller 62(3)

Hans Andersen's Boomerang 65(3)

On the Sublime 68(3)

Pathetic Phalluses 71(3)

Camino Unreal 74(4)

A Major Musical 78(3)

From Leo X to Plus XII 81(3)

Personality 84(3)

On Being Read to 87(4)

Within this Wooden O 91(3)

On Staging Yeats 94(3)

Give my Regards to Broadway 97(3)

Sir Laurence Macheath 100(3)

Julius Caesar, 1953 103(4)

Folklore on Forty-Seventh Street 107(3)

How Deep are the Roots? 110(4)

The Perfect Play 114(3)

New Playwright, New Actress 117(3)

God Bless America 120(3)

End as a Yes-Man 123(4)

The Ill-Made Play 127(4)

Pessimism as a Pick-Me-Up 131(3)

Shakespeare's Politics 134(4)

Captain Bligh's Revenge 138(3)

Old Possum at Play 141(4)

The Idea of a Theatre 145(4)

Homosexuality 149(3)

Reigen Comes Full Circle 152(3)

Acting, Sex-Appeal, Democracy 155(4)

The Standard Story 159(3)

Tea, Sympathy, and the Noble Savage 162(3)

Who are you Rooting for? 165(4)

Crafty Godliness 169(3)

The Presence of Mozart 172(3)

``...And Chronicle Small Beer'' 175(8)
What Is Theatre?

The Family, 1954 183(3)

Off Broadway 186(4)

The American Musical 190(3)

A Whole Theory of the Drama 193(3)

Joshua Logan 196(4)

A Real Writer 200(4)

Eileen Heckart and Others 204(3)

Poetry of the Theatre 207(4)

There is Charm and Charm 211(3)

But Junk is Junk 214(4)

Wild Duck and Tame Phoenix 218(3)

What is Beauty, Saith my Sufferings, Then? 221(3)

Tennessee Williams and New York Kazan 224(7)

Homage to Scribe 231(4)

Orson Welles and Two Othellos 235(3)

A Great Bronze Gong 238(4)

Two Hundred Years of Mowing 242(3)

The Example of the Comedie Francaise 245(6)

Inaccuracy 251(3)

The Road from Rouen to New York 254(4)

On the Waterfront 258(3)

Marriage, 1955 261(4)

A Funny Sort of Red 265(4)

A Director's Theatre 269(3)

How not to Write an Audience 272(4)

Whimsy and the Cultured Classes 276(3)

The last Drawing-Room Comedy 279(4)

A Directly Sensuous Pleasure 283(3)

Inaccuracy Again 286(4)

A Liquid Grace 290(5)

Undramatic Theatricality 295(9)

The Other Orson Welles 304(5)

The Missing Communist 309(6)

Thirty-Two Non-Reviews 315(15)

Olivier on Disk 330(5)

De Filippo on the Screen 335(3)

Martha Graham 338(4)

Marcel Marceau 342(3)

James Agate 345(8)
Other Reviews 1944--1967

Drama Now 353(9)

The Old Vic, the Old Critics, and the New Generation 362(6)

Barrault: A Dialogue 368(9)

Playwright of the Fifties 377(5)

The Peking Opera 382(3)

Opera in New York 385(9)

A Touch of the Adolescent 394(10)

Comedy and the Comic Spirit in America 404(10)

The German Theatre Today 414(9)

Eight German Productions 423(11)

Charlie Chaplin and Peggy Hopkins Joyce 434(9)

The Civil Obedience of Galileo Galilei 443(10)
After Thoughts (1952--1956) 453(18)
Index 471