No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance: A History of the American Musical Theater
Sheldon Patinkin is chair of the Theater Department of Columbia College in Chicago, artistic director of the Getz Theater of Columbia College, artistic consultant for Second City and Steppenwolf Theatre, and co-director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Summer Ensemble Workshops. He has directed more than one hundred plays, musicals, operas, and revues throughout the United States and around the world. In 2002 Patinkin was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from both the Chicago Improv Festival and the Israeli Film Festival. He is the author of The Second City: Backstage at the World's Greatest Comedy Theater (Sourcebooks, 2000).