Why the Theatre : In Personal Essays, College Teachers, Actors, Directors, and Playwrights Tell Why the Theatre Is So Vital to Them (Hardcover)

Section 1: The Creative Role of the Audience 1. "Vouchsafe Me Audience" Nick Hutchison 2. "Training the Eye" Susan Cerasano 3. "Undeveloped Freight: Listening Together in the Playhouse" Robert Price 4. "A Shakespeare Professor Becomes a Playgoer" Alan Dessen 5. "Acting the Storm: 20 Years of Tempests" June Schlueter 6. "From Theatre to Classroom: Making Teaching Effective" Fred Kiefer Section 2: The Life of the Actor, Director, and Playwright in Performance 7. "Breaking the Fourth Wall" Gary Lagden 8. "Play, Devising, and the Creative Process" Brian Rhinehart 9. "I Am Thrilled by an Impure Theatre" Sidney Homan 10. "In the Nick: Theatre in and of Our Times" Jerry Harp 11. "‘The Play’ May Not Be ‘The Thing’" Erica Terpening 12. "Why Butoh Theatre: Thoughts of the Actor, Questions from the Director" Yokko Ysami Brian Rhinehart 13. "Amateur Hour, or Notes from a Hack Playwright" Paul Menzer Section 3: When the Theatre Moves Beyond the Stage into the Real World 14. "Theatre for Health" Joanna Howarth 15. "Why Make Theatre in the South Pacific" David O’Donnell 16. "Empathy Is Essential" Kristin Kundert 17. "The Art of Failure" Katherine McGerr 18. "Why Teach Theatre?" Gina MacKenzie 19. "Making Theatre around the World, and What It Has Taught Me" Avra Sidiroupoulou Section 4: Theories and Thoughts about What the Theatre Can Do When Given Form Onstage 20. "The Cruelty Tourist and the Emancipated Spectator: Looking for an Essential Theatre" Ralf Remshardt 21. "Theatre and the Digital Native" Donna Soto-Morettini 22. "Remembering Dreams" Fran Teague 23. "Theatrical Pleasure and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel" Joseph Candido 24. "‘Lapis Lazuli’ as Theatrum Mundi" Daniel O’Hara 25. "Why (Not) Theatre? Stage, Screen, and Streaming in a Pandemic" Patrick Hart 26. "Because" Cary Mazer