# Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company - Hardcover

by **Deborah C. Payne** (Author), **Drew Lichtenberg** (Author), **Farah Karim-Cooper** (Editor)

**Co-authored by the resident dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company and a long-time scholarly consultant, this book chronicles how a small repertory troupe at the Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill became an internationally renowned company performing in a lavish, multi-venue performing arts centre in downtown Washington, D.C.**

The artistic vision and business acumen of Michael Kahn, the founding Artistic Director, largely catalyzed this transformation, but so too did the forces of neoliberalism and, more recently, globalization and new media. Accordingly, _Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company_ not only examines directorial decision-making but also 3 decades of social and economic change in the nation's capital, from the complexities of gentrification to the arts policies of successive administrations.

In addition to discussions of directorial practice, this book examines the ambivalence of American theatre artists toward their British cultural inheritance. Analyses of representative productions and interviews with Kahn and his British successor, Simon Godwin, illuminate this complex relationship: one that aspires to a cosmopolitan Anglophilia while positioning classically trained American actors as worthy rivals to their counterparts at the RSC and the National Theatre of Great Britain.

### Author Biography

**Drew Lichtenberg** has been resident dramaturg at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, USA, since 2011. He has worked as a dramaturg, literary manager and translator-adaptor with the Royal National Theatre, Public Theater, Roundabout, La Mama, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre Center, Yale Rep and Baltimore Center Stage. As an educator, he has taught courses at Catholic University of America, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University and Eugene Lang College at the New School. His publications include _The Piscatorbühne Century_ (2021).

**Deborah C. Payne** is Professor of Literature at American University, USA. She was the Humanities Research Consultant at the Shakespeare Theatre Company from 2000 - 2009, and she has dramaturged for Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, and the Bach Sinfonia. Publications include _The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660 - 1700_ (2023), _Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play_ (2016), _Four Restoration Libertine Plays_ (2005), _The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre_ (2000) and _Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theatre_ (1995).

**Number of Pages:** 280

**Dimensions:** 0.69 x 8 x 5 IN

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2024

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