Interview With Cultural Historian William Grange (6-21-21)

I first spoke to the professor in 2007.

00:00 Cultural historian William Grange, https://arts.unl.edu/theatre-and-film/faculty/william-grange
01:00 Alexander Technique
03:00 My 2007 interview with William Grange, https://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/william_grange.htm
07:00 Aging and cognitive power
09:30 Writers block
12:00 American identity
15:00 African-American identity
20:00 The civil rights revolution, https://www.amazon.com/Age-Entitlement-America-Since-Sixties/dp/1501106899
22:00 American theater and American identity and Death of a Salesman
24:40 Bertholt Brech, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
25:10 The Caucasian Chalk Circle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caucasian_Chalk_Circle
26:00 The Good Person of Szechwan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Person_of_Szechwan
28:20 Lillian Hellman, Edward Albee
28:45 Ödön von Horváth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96d%C3%B6n_von_Horv%C3%A1th
29:10 Harold Pinter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter
31:00 The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136235
33:00 Modernism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth-century_theatre
35:00 Stanislavski Method, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Stanislavski
37:30 Bill Hader, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hader
38:10 Daniel Day Lewis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis
39:00 What's the most influential art form?
40:30 The Business of American Theater, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089N9K6VD/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
41:00 Shubert Organization, https://shubert.nyc/
44:00 Modernist vs post-modernism theater, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_theatre
45:00 The great Christian playwrights
46:00 The Tidings Brought to Mary
46:30 The House Beautiful, https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-house-beautiful-11339
48:00 Theater is a communal experience, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/theater/
50:30 Sam Shepard, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard
51:00 David Mamet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet
52:00 Neil Simon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Simon
52:45 Larry Gelbart, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gelbart
1:00:20 Nude scenes
1:01:30 Actresses as hookers
1:18:00 Playwrights vs screenplay writers
1:23:00 What type of plays make money?
1:24:40 Cabaret, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096NW9ZLP/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
1:26:00 La bohème, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_boh%C3%A8me
1:30:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cook
1:32:00 Situational comedy, https://www.britannica.com/art/situation-comedy
1:33:00 Cheap comedy vs expensive comedy
1:34:00 Tom Stoppard's Travesties
1:36:00 Hitler loved theater