Isherwood: When the American Theater Found Its Own Way, From Eugene O’Neill to Lin-Manuel Miranda

[MezzA101]

Posted: 2/8/26 at 12:46pm

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/theater/american-theater-through-history-cb0e52ed?st=BzNC2m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/8/26 at 1:16pm

Would love to read this but don't have a subscription.

[MezzA101]

Posted: 2/8/26 at 2:37pm

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https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/theater/american-theater-through-history-cb0e52ed?st=n6aLBw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[sinister teashop]

Posted: 2/9/26 at 4:45pm

Okay, Eugene O’Neil “brought drama to America” by slavishly following every European highbrow artistic and theatrical movement and translating them into American subjects. He did that for most of his early and mid career. 

[Kad]

Posted: 2/9/26 at 4:58pm

This is a very cursory look at American theatre with no real thesis behind it or real insight into it. It gives short shrift to anybody who wasn't O'Neill, Rogers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, or Miranda and makes no mention of the various artistic movements or companies who built up the American theatre and, as sinister teashop implies, divorces it from a global artistic context.  

Updated On: 2/9/26 at 04:58 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 2/9/26 at 9:13pm

Kad said: "This is a very cursory look at American theatre with no real thesis behind it or real insight into it. It gives short shrift to anybody who wasn't O'Neill, Rogers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, or Miranda and makes no mention of the various artistic movements or companies who built up the American theatre and, as sinister teashop implies, divorces it from a global artistic context."

Exactly.  I was surprised Jesse Green didn't write it.