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"THE PLAY THAT CHANGED MY LIFE - America's Foremost Playwrights on the
Plays That Influenced Them" edited by Ben Hodges (Amazon.com:
http://tr.im/PlayC )
...a valuable new collection of essays and interviews from the
American Theater Wing, founder of the Tony Awards and a sponsor of
theatrical education programs. Anyone working in theater probably
would have something to contribute, but the Wing wisely chose to
resist the commercial benefits of turning to stars for anecdotes.
Instead it solicited insights from 21 of America�s best playwrights,
artists equipped to write knowingly and movingly about the ways that
plays and theater gave them a calling.
Despite its parlor-game title, �The Play That Changed My Life� is
anything but a dry assignment in theatrical autobiography. Rather, as
the Pulitzer Prize-winning Paula Vogel (�How I Learned to Drive�)
writes in her introduction, �this book documents desire: the moment
writers-to-be were caught in the tantalizing web of theatrical
allure.�
Continued: http://tr.im/PChanged