The Actor's Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Stage Performers

✍ Scribed by Jackson R. Bryer, Richard A. Davison

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 302
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Interviews with seventeen leading stage performers.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction......Page 8
About the Interviews......Page 18
Zoe Caldwell......Page 22
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy......Page 41
Blythe Danner......Page 61
Ruby Dee......Page 76
George Grizzard......Page 91
Julie Harris......Page 109
Eileen Heckart......Page 128
Cherry Jones......Page 145
James Earl Jones......Page 164
Stacy Keach......Page 177
Shirley Knight......Page 193
Nathan Lane......Page 209
Jason Robards......Page 226
Maureen Stapleton......Page 247
Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson......Page 259
Index......Page 282

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