To Repair the World

This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country.

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Mary B. Robinson headed an undergraduate directing program at New York University (under the auspices of Playwrights Horizons Theater School) from 19992014. She has directed 70 productions at non-profit theaters (including Arena Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, and Seattle Repertory Company), from 1981 to the present. She was one of 50 directors (along with Zelda Fichandler) featured in American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2008). Author of Directing Plays, Directing People: A Collaborative Art, published by Smith & Kraus in 2012.

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Foreword by Jane Alexander

Preface

Prologue: Destined to be a Pioneer: Boston and Washington DC, 1924 to 1950

Chapter 1. Something Was Happening There: Arena Stage, 1950 to 1961

Chapter 2. Making a Point: Arena Stage, 1961 to 1967

Chapter 3. Trapped in the Ring: Arena Stage, 1967 to 1968

Chapter 4. Tension Between the Old and the New: Arena Stage, 1969 to 1973

Chapter 5. A Long-Postponed Rendezvous: Arena Stage in the Soviet Union, 1973

Chapter 6. Passionately Involved in Everything: Arena Stage, 1973 to 1978

Chapter 7. A Very Charmed Circle of People: Arena Stage, 1978 to 1984

Chapter 8. Changing the Zeitgeist: New York University, 1984 to 1991

Chapter 9. Adding Some New Energy: Arena Stage, 1984 to 1988

Chapter 10. An Unbridgeable Aesthetic Gulf: Arena Stage, 1986 to 1987

Chapter 11. A Sense of Completion: Arena Stage in Israel, 1987

Chapter 12. Returning to the Room with Actors: Arena Stage, 1987 to 1991

Chapter 13. Being a Missionary: The Acting Company, 1991 to 1994

Chapter 14. Taking Those Big Risks: New York University, 1991 to 2000

Chapter 15. Keeping the Door Open: Arena Stage, 1991 to 2008

Chapter 16. We Carry on Telling Stories: New York University, 2001 to 2008

Chapter 17. How Do We Move It Forward? Washington, DC, 2008 to 2016

Afterword: Passing the Fire

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Bibliography

Permissions

Index