Stage Dust by Charles Marowitz

Stage Dust is an assortment of notices, columns, profiles, and essays which describe the performances, plays, personalities, trends and controversies that preoccupied the cultural scene in America in the last decade of the twentieth century, with special emphases on the theatre. It contains personal observations about some of the most seminal and outstanding performances that took place in the 1990s and the artists that were most prominent during that period. It is culled from a variety of periodical sources including "The New York Times, The L.A.Times, American Theatre Magazine, The Guardian" (UK), "The Sunday Times" (UK), " The Observer" (UK) and "London Times"(UK). The book embraces Performing Arts, mime, film, TV and books and describes the way in which the theatre interacted with the larger cultural climate in the country. Using brief linking commentary, it also fills in for the reader the necessary foreground and background of the items under review.Author Charles Marowitz is currently the Artistic Director of the "Malibu Stage Company"and has been co-director with Peter Brook of the Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group. His directorial credits include several West End productions including premieres of work by Saul Bellow, joe Orton and Sam Shepard. His free adaptation of Shakespeare have been published world-wide and collected in the volume, " The Marowitz Shakespeare". Marowitz has been the lead Drama Critic for the L.A. Herald Examiner and he has contributed to a wide variety of publications. He is also an experienced acting -teacher having conducted Professional Acting Seminars in Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Wiesabden, Oslo and Stockholm as well ascolleges, universities and drama-schools throughout England.