THEATER PICTORIAL a History of World Theater As Recorded in Drawings, Paintings, Engravings, and Photographs

Berkeley And Los Angeles: University Of California. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 320 pages; Berkeley and Los Angeles: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. 320 pages; Clean and secure in original orange decorative cloth binding in very good price-clipped dustjacket (now in protective mylar cover) . The history of theatre and of theatre structures is covered from 20, 000 B. C. To 1950 A. D. Profusely illustrated with more than 500 reproductions of drawings, engravings, paintings and photographs. Typed note laid-in from Christine Stevens to her daughter on Animal Welfare Institute notepaper. This book belonged to Mr. And Mrs. Roger Stevens, founder and Director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; founder of the National Endowment for Humanities and noted theatrical producer. He produced more than 100 plays and musicals over his career, including West Side Story, Bus Stop, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1971, he received Special Tony Award for his body of work. He became known for introducing plays by such adventurous writers as Harold Pinter, Arthur Kopit and Tom Stoppard. Stevens was the General Administrator of the Actors Studio as well as one of the producers of the Playwrights Company, a member of the board of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) , and one of the members of a Broadway producing company he founded in 1953 with Robert Whitehead and Robert Dowling. In 1961, he was asked by President John F. Kennedy to help establish a National Cultural Center, and became Chairman of Board of Trustees of what was eventually named the Kennedy Center from 1961 to 1988. In 1965, he received an appointment from President Lyndon Johnson as first Chairman of the National Council on the Arts later named the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1986, Stevens was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. On January 13, 1988, Stevens was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. In 1988, he was also awarded the National Medal of Arts. .; Music and Performing Arts, Most Recent Listing, Most Recent Listing, Most Recent Listing, Most Recent Listing .