Cast out
Subtitle: queer lives in theater
By: edited by Robin Bernstein.
Contributors: Bernstein, Robin, 1969-
Series: Triangulations
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780472099337; 9780472069330
Subjects: Gays in the performing arts; Gays and the performing arts; Gay theater -- United States
Description: "Cast Out is a collection of memoirs and interviews by twenty-two leading performers, playwrights, technicians, producers, critics, educators, and passionate spectators. The book offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past fifty years."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How I learned theater / Peggy Shaw; title: The lair of light / Jim Provenzano; title: Exposures of a multispirited, Haitian-American, gender-harmonizing woMan / MilDréd Diyaa Gerestant; title: A straight line / Lisa Kron; title: An interview by Andrew Veléz / George C. Wolfe; title: The divine Mr. K : reclaiming my "unruly" past with Bette Midler and the baths / Kevin Winkler; title: And Frida looks back : the art of Latina/o queer heroics / Cherríe L. Moraga; title: The battle of Chattanooga / Tim Miller; title: Queer theater, musicals to masturbation : a conversation with Too tall blondes / Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas; title: The language of disregard / Terry Galloway; title: Queer players : strategic theater in San Diego / Karleen Pendleton Jiménez; title: Professional spectatorship's queer stages / Michael R. Schiavi; title: There's a place for us ... somewhere / Bree Coven; title: The stages of East Texas / Novid Parsi; title: Paradise won and lost : a life in gay theatre / Robert Patrick; title: A playwright who happens to be gay : an interview by Robin Bernstein / Edward Albee; title: Huevos de oro : on passion and privilege / Ricardo Bracho; title: From elks to Aliyah / Rob Baum; title: Heaven and home / Michael Kearns; title: Cherry on top : an interview by Andrew Vélez / Cherry Jones; title: Making a fresh start / Craig Lucas.