Great North American Stage Directors Volume 2

Jonathan Chambers is Professor of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.

• List of FiguresSeries Introduction, James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA)Introduction. The Director in the Company and the Value of Crisis, Jonathan Chambers (Bowling Green State University, USA)Harold Clurman1. Harold Clurman, the Group, and the Legacy of a Director, Richard Jones (Stephen F. Austin State University, USA)2. Cultural Messiah: Harold Clurman and the Early Years of the Group Theatre, Fonzie D. Geary II (Lyon College, USA)3. Something More Than the "Naked Facts": Clurman and Odets's Messy Idealism, Christopher Herr (Missouri State University, USA)Orson Welles4. Orson Welles, Project 891, and the Mercury Theatre: A Consideration of Welles as the Director of a Company, Matthew Gretzinger (Independent Scholar, USA)5. Recovering History and Supernatural Politics: Orson Welles's Creative Collaborations in the Federal Theatre Project's "Voodoo Macbeth", Elizabeth A. Osborne (Florida State University, USA)6. Caesar: A Production for Its Time and Beyond, Anne Fletcher (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA)Margo Jones7. Margo Jones and the Rhetoric of Company-Making, Boone J. Hopkins (Converse College, USA)8. Margo Jones and Alma Winemiller: A Director and Her Doppelgänger, Chrystyna Dail (Ithaca College, USA)9. On a Double-Dog Dare: Margo Jones’s Production of Inherit the Wind, Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh (Rollins College, USA)BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

Provides a valuable in-depth look into the development of a stage directors’ work and how their efforts affected the development of the performative arts.