The American Theatre Wing Presents: Play That Changed My Life

The American Theatre Wing Presents: The Play That Changed My Life (Americas Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them) ** Edited by Ben Hodges. Applause Books. Softcover. 178 pages. Published by Applause Books.

What was the play that changed your life? What was the play that inspired you; that showed you something entirely new; that was so thrilling or surprising, breathtaking or poignant, that you were never the same? Nineteen of todays most gifted playwrights respond in this most revealing and personal book, published by Applause Books and presented by the American Theatre Wing, founder of The Tony Awards.

From Edward Albees 1935 visit to New Yorks Hippodrome Theatre to see Jimmy Durante (and an elephant) in Rodgers and Harts Jumbo, to Diana Sons twelfth-grade field trip in 1983 to see Diane Venora play Hamlet at The Public Theater, from David Henry Hwangs seminal San Francisco encounter with Equus to a young Beth Henleys epiphany after seeing her mother in a