Book chapter
Walter Kerr’s Utopia of Re-Creation
Hope and the Longing for Utopia, p.119
James Clarke & Co
02/26/2015
Abstract
Walter Kerr (1913–96) began his career teaching speech and drama at The Catholic University of america, moving on to write about the theatre forCommonwealin the early 1950s. afterwards, he was theatre critic for theNew York Herald Tribuneand then forThe New York Timesuntil his retirement.He was also a playwright, lyricist, and director of a number of Broadway plays and musicals, the most successful of which was “goldilocks” (1958), which he wrote with his wife Jean Kerr and which won two tony awards. in midcareer, as one of the most influential theatre critics in the
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Walter Kerr’s Utopia of Re-Creation
- Creators
- Benjamin K. Hunnicutt
- Contributors
- Daniel Boscaljon (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Hope and the Longing for Utopia, p.119
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/26/2015
- Academic Unit
- Health and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984267147402771
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