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The American Place Theatre was founded in 1963 by Wynn Handman, Sidney Lanier,〔Sidney Lanier, 90, Experimental Stage Producer.... Paul Vitello, New York Times, October 5, 2013 | http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/theater/sidney-lanier-90-experimental-stage-producer-is-dead.html?_r=0〕 and Michael Tolan at St. Clement's Church, far west on 46th Street in New York City and was incorporated as a not-for-profit theatre in that year. Tennessee Williams and Myrna Loy were two of the original Board members. The first full production was ''The Old Glory'', a trilogy of three one-acts by the poet Robert Lowell, produced in November 1964. The play would go on to win five Obie Awards the following year, including "Best American Play."〔(Publisher's play synopsis )〕〔(Obie Awards for 1965 )〕 In addition to producing Robert Lowell's first play, The American Place Theatre has produced and developed the first plays of outstanding writers from other literary forms including Donald Barthelme, Robert Coover, Paul Goodman, H. L. Mencken, Joyce Carol Oates, S. J. Perelman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, May Swenson, and Robert Penn Warren. Significant playwrights have been nurtured and, in many cases, initially produced at The American Place, such as: * Sam Shepard (8 plays including one co-authored with Joseph Chaikin) * Ronald Ribman (6) * Steve Tesich (6) * Maria Irene Fornes (4 including one produced as part of The Women’s Project) * Ed Bullins (5) * Phillip Hayes Dean (3) * William Hauptman (3) * Jonathan Reynolds (4) * William Alfred * Emily Mann * Richard Nelson * Frank Chin, the first Asian American to have plays produced by a mainstream New York company (''The Chickencoop Chinaman'' and ''The Year of the Dragon'') Also, major attention has been brought to unconventional, contemporary actor/writers such as Eric Bogosian, Bill Irwin, John Leguizamo, Aasif Mandvi, and Dael Orlandersmith. ==History== The American Place Theatre played an important role in the emerging African-American theatre beginning in the early 1960s by producing the first productions of plays by Michael Bradford, Ed Bullins, Kia Corthron, James de Jongh, Joseph Edward, Lonne Elder III, Phillip Hayes Dean, Elaine Jackson, Alonzo D. Lamont Jr., Ron Milner, Matt Robinson, Charlie L. Russell, and Vincent Smith. Its American Humorists’ Series has transferred from the page to live performance the work of outstanding humorous writers, among them George Ade, Robert Benchley, Roy Blount Jr., A. Whitney Brown, Jules Feiffer, Bruce Jay Friedman, Cynthia Heimel, Dorothy Parker, Roger Rosenblatt, Damon Runyon, Jean Shepherd, James Thurber, and Calvin Trillin. In 1978, The Women’s Project, directed by Julia Miles, was designed to encourage, develop, and produce women playwrights and directors. After nine years of producing many groundbreaking works at The American Place Theatre, the project has grown into a separate entity. Actors for whom The American Place Theatre has been a launching pad include Mary Alice, Ellen Barkin, Roscoe Lee Browne, Kathleen Chalfant, Michael Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Sandy Duncan, Morgan Freeman, Richard Gere, Joel Grey, Dustin Hoffman, Frank Langella, Mary MacDonnell, Zakes Mokae, Howard Rollins, John Spencer, Ralph Waite, Sam Waterston, and Sigourney Weaver. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The American Place Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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