Richard Schechner

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Schechner is University Professor Emeritus at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and editor of TDR: The Drama Review. Biography Richard Schechner received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1956, a Master's degree from the University of Iowa two years later, and a PhD from Tulane University in 1962. He edited The Drama Review, formerly the Tulane Drama Review, from 1962 to 1969; and again from 1986 to the present.

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Performance Studies: An Introduction (2002) (1390)
Between Theater and Anthropology (1985) (846)
By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual (1990) (263)
The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance@@@Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance (1994) (237)
The future of ritual : writings on culture and performance (1995) (229)
On Environmental Design. (1971) (154)
The Age of Terrorism (2002) (138)
What is Performance Studies? (2017) (135)
Essays on performance theory, 1970-1976 (1977) (129)
The Grotowski sourcebook (1997) (112)
The Future Of Ritual (1993) (110)
Essays on Performance Theory (1988) (105)
Performance Studies: The Broad Spectrum Approach (1988) (84)
The Conservative Avant-Garde (2011) (83)
Between theater & anthropology (1985) (82)
A New Paradigm for Theatre in the Academy (1992) (78)
Why Social Theatre? (2004) (65)
6 Axioms for Environmental Theatre (1968) (61)
Teaching performance studies (2002) (61)
An Interview with John Cage (1965) (60)
The end of humanism : writings on performance (1982) (55)
What Is »Performance Studies« Anyway? (2001) (46)
The transformation of consciousness in ritual performances: some thoughts and questions (1990) (46)
Chinese theories of theater and performance from Confucius to the present (1999) (44)
3. Performers and Spectators Transported and Transformed (1985) (36)
Ritual, Play and Performance: Readings in the Social Sciences/Theatre (1979) (35)
Performative Circumstances from the Avant Garde to Ramlila (1983) (34)
DRAMA, SCRIPT, THEATER, AND PERFORMANCE (1973) (33)
Ritual, play, and performance : readings in the social sciences/theatre (1978) (32)
Julie Taymor: From Jacques Lecoq to The Lion King (1999) (31)
Ritual and performance (2002) (31)
Victor Turner's Last Adventure (1985) (30)
BOAL IN BRAZIL, FRANCE, THE USA : An interview with Augusto Boal (1990) (26)
9/11 as Avant-Garde Art? (2009) (25)
"Theatre of Roots": Encounter with Tradition (1989) (25)
Approaches to Theory/Criticism (1966) (25)
Restoration of Behavior (1981) (23)
An Interview with Grotowski (1968) (20)
1. Collective Reflexivity: Restoration of Behavior (1982) (19)
Ford, Rockefeller, and Theatre (1965) (19)
The Ramlila of Ramnagar [India] (1977) (19)
Race Free, Gender Free, Body-Type Free, Age Free Casting (1989) (19)
After the Fall of the Wall (1990) (18)
CARNIVAL (THEORY) AFTER BAKHTIN (2004) (18)
The Free Southern Theater, by the Free Southern Theater : A documentary of the South's radical Black theater, with journals, letters, poetry, essays, and a play written by those who built it (1969) (17)
Dionysus in 69 (1970) (17)
Peter Minshall: A Voice to Add to the Song of the Universe (1998) (17)
Anna Deavere Smith: Acting as Incorporation (1993) (17)
The Death of ATA (1986) (16)
From Ritual to Theatre and Back: The Structure/Process of the Efficacy-Entertainment Dyad (1974) (16)
Is Performance Studies Imperialist? Part 3: A Forum (2007) (16)
The Decline and Fall of the (American) Avant-Garde: Why It Happened and What We Can Do About It (2018) (15)
1. Points of Contact Between Anthropological and Theatrical Thought (1985) (15)
Wayang kulit in the colonial margin (1990) (15)
Multiculture at School (1992) (15)
"The Bacchae": A City Sacrificed to a Jealous God (1961) (14)
Augusto Boal, City Councillor: Legislative Theatre and the Chamber in the Streets (1998) (14)
Intentions, Problems, Proposals (1963) (14)
My Art in Life: Interviewing Spalding Gray (2002) (13)
Believed—in Theatre (1997) (13)
Extensions in Time and Space. An Interview with Allan Kaprow (1968) (13)
Invasions Friendly & Unfriendly: The Dramaturgy of Direct Theatre (1992) (13)
There's Lots of Time in Godot (2013) (12)
Karen Finley: A Constant State of Becoming: An Interview (1988) (11)
A Reply to Rustom Bharucha (1984) (11)
From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy-entertainment braid (2003) (10)
Performance Studies in/for the 21st Century (2001) (10)
Performance As a Formation of Power and Knowledge (2000) (10)
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001 (2002) (9)
Working with Live Material (1964) (9)
Robert Wilson and Fred Newman A Dialogue on Politics and Therapy, Stillness and Vaudeville (2003) (8)
Theatre Alive in the New Millennium (2000) (8)
The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (review) (2001) (8)
Who's Afraid of Edward Albee? (1963) (7)
PAJ Distorts the Broad Spectrum (1989) (7)
Public domain : essays on the theater (1969) (7)
Kinesics and Performance. (1973) (7)
Talking with Peter Brook (1986) (7)
Behavior, Performance, and Performance Space (1990) (7)
The Unexpected Visitor in Ibsen's Late Plays (1962) (7)
Reality Is Not Enough (1965) (7)
The street is the stage (2003) (7)
Transforming Theatre Departments (1995) (6)
Guerrilla Theatre: May 1970 (1970) (6)
Incest and culture: a reflection on Claude Lévi-Strauss. (1971) (6)
Dialogue: The Free Southern Theatre (1965) (6)
TDR Comment: Mainstream Theatre and Performance Studies (2000) (6)
A Polity of Its Own Called Art (2006) (6)
Selective Inattention: A Traditional Way of Spectating Now Part of the Avant-Garde (2018) (6)
Post Post-Structuralism? (2000) (6)
GODOTOLOGY: There's Lots Of Time In Godot (1966) (6)
Brazilian Theatre and National Identity (1990) (6)
Concerning Theory for Performance Studies (2009) (5)
By Means of Performance: Appendix (1990) (5)
Responses to W. B. Worthen's "Disciplines of the Text/Sites of Performance" (1995) (5)
Plagiarism, Greed, and the Dumbing Down of Performance Studies (2009) (5)
A Critical Evaluation of Kirby's Criticism of Criticism (1974) (5)
Containment Is the Enemy (1969) (5)
Environmental theater : including "six axioms for environmental theater" (1994) (5)
Striding through the cosmos: movement, belief, politics, and place in the Ramlila of Ramnagar (1995) (5)
A Yaqui point of view: on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologists (1990) (5)
Political Realities, the Enemy within, the NEA, and You (1990) (5)
Building the Builders Association: A Conversation with Marianne Weems, James Gibbs, and Moe Angelos (2012) (4)
Mainstream Theatre and Performance Studies (2000) (4)
THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF THEATRE ANTHROPOLOGY (1995) (4)
Grotowski and the Grotowskian (2008) (4)
Les « points de contact » entre anthropologie et performance (2013) (4)
What is Performance? (2012) (4)
Genet's The Balcony: A 1981 Perspective on a 1979/80 Production (1982) (4)
Donald John Trump, President? (2017) (4)
Anna Halprin: A Life in Ritual. An Interview (1989) (4)
The Enactment of the "Not" in Ionesco Les Chaises (1962) (3)
Stanislavski at School (1964) (3)
Nuo Theatre in Guizhou Province (1989) (3)
Ron Vawter: For the Record: An Interview (1993) (3)
Bon Voyage, NEA (1996) (3)
By Means of Performance: Introduction (1990) (3)
Tadeusz Kantor's Journey (1986) (3)
Theatres, spaces, environments: Eighteen projects (1975) (3)
Debating "Ways of Speaking, Loci of Cognition" (1988) (3)
Broadening the Broad Spectrum (2010) (3)
Collaborating on Odissi: An Interview with Sanjukta Panigrahi, Kelucharan Mahapatra, and Raghunath Panigrahi (1988) (3)
The Open Theatre (1964) (3)
No More Theatre PhDs? (2013) (3)
There's Something Happenin' Here (2010) (3)
A Tale of a Few Cities: Interculturalism on the Road (1991) (3)
A Ritual Seminar Transcribed (2009) (3)
Postmodern Performance Two Views: The End of Humanism (2018) (3)
Anthropological Analysis: Before and after "Andy Warhol's Last Love" (1978) (3)
Letter from Augusto Boal (1970) (3)
Speculations on Radicalism, Sexuality, & Performance (1969) (3)
"Doctor Faustus" in Poland (1964) (3)
The Inner and the Outer Reality (1963) (3)
Interculturalism on the Road (1991) (3)
Ploughshares or Perish II (1990) (3)
TOWARD A POETICS OF PERFORMANCE (2003) (3)
The Yi: Human Evolution Theatre (1989) (3)
Living a Double Consciousness (2007) (3)
The Big Issues and The Happy Few (2004) (3)
The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishmentin Medieval and Renaissance Europe . By Mitchell B. Merback . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1999 ; 352 pp.; illustrations. $42.00 cloth. (2001) (2)
Ethology and theater (2003) (2)
Federal Aid and Regional Theatre (1966) (2)
On Playwriting & Environmental Theatre (1973) (2)
Performance Orientations in Ritual Theatre (1988) (2)
Uprooting the Garden: Thoughts around ‘The Prometheus Project’ (1986) (2)
7. News, Sex, and Performance Theory (1985) (2)
Self Inflicted Wounds: Art, Ritual, Popular Culture (2009) (2)
In Warm Blood: "The Bacchae" (1968) (2)
Subject to the Tourist Gaze: A Response to "Weesageechak Begins to Dance" (1993) (2)
Wrestling Against Time: The Performance Aspects of Agni (1986) (2)
TDR Comment: Theatre Alive in the New Millenium (2000) (2)
The Decline and Fall of the (American) Avant-Garde: Why It Happened and What We Can Do About It (2018) (2)
Theatre in the 21st Century (1997) (2)
A “Vedic Ritual” in Quotation Marks (1987) (2)
Look, There's the American Theatre (1964) (2)
What Interests Me about Performance (1988) (2)
Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution@@@Ritual, Play and Performance (1978) (2)
Blau and Irving at Lincoln Center: II (1965) (2)
An Interview with Ionesco (1963) (2)
From Perform-l: The Future in Retrospect (1995) (2)
An Open Letter to the President of the USA (2008) (2)
TDR and Me (2006) (2)
Signing the Purity Oath (1990) (1)
The Journal of Environmental Theatre (1967) (1)
New Russian Drama (2019) (1)
In Search of Lost Stories: Italian Performance in the Mid-'80s. Three Interviews (1988) (1)
The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies (review) (2007) (1)
TDR Moves to Cambridge University Press (2021) (1)
Toward the 21st Century (1993) (1)
Interviews with Judith Malina and Kenneth Brown (1964) (1)
Twilight of the Gods (1964) (1)
Ways of Speaking, Loci of Cognition (1987) (1)
The Future of the Field (1995) (1)
America's Leading Actor at Work (1986) (1)
Occupy Solidarity (2012) (1)
The Seventh Street Environment. An Interview with Bud Wirtschafter (1968) (1)
Would You "Please" Talk to Those People? (1964) (1)
Retrial for Sharjah "Blasphemers" (1994) (1)
Theory and Practice of the Indeterminate Theatre (1989) (1)
Dixi: Chinese Farmers' Theatre (1992) (1)
EXODUCTION (2018) (1)
Response to Bailey and Ford's "Of Methods and Metaphors" (1994) (1)
Points of Contact Between Anthropology and Theatre, Again (2020) (1)
On east seventh street (1968) (1)
Do You Care If the Not-for-Profit Regional Theatre Goes under? (1993) (1)
Exploding Time and Space (1964) (1)
The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre (2013) (1)
The Illumination of LEIMAY’s Becoming - Corpus (2014) (1)
Anthropology in performance: interview with Richard Schechner, by John C. Dawsey (2018) (1)
Making Waves: An Interview with Charlie Morrow (1990) (1)
Cuba: Lift the American Embargo Now (1994) (1)
Waehma: space, time, identity, and theatre at New Pascua, Arizona (1995) (1)
Grotowski Blazes the Trails: From Objective Drama to Art as Vehicle Zbigniew Osinski (2013) (1)
Flexible Theatrical Space. An Interview with Paul Baker (1968) (1)
UNETHICAL ACTS (2013) (1)
Foley Jots a Few Notes in the Colonial Margin (1991) (1)
Quo Vadis, Performance History? (2004) (1)
Ringing the Bell for Ellen Stewart: 19192011 (2011) (1)
Introduction: Jayaganesh and the avant-garde (1995) (1)
In Memory: Judith Malina 1926–2015 (2015) (1)
A Dialog with a Pole (1986) (1)
TDR Comings and Goings (2008) (1)
An Interview with Joseph Chaikin Chaikin Fragments (1969) (1)
Theatre in times/places of crisis: a theoretical perspective (2015) (1)
The Unperformative President (2015) (0)
The Theatre of the Living Arts (1967) (0)
Letter from Richard Schechner (1976) (0)
[Letter from Robert Anderson, Joseph Chaikin, Harold Clurman, Miriam Colon, Rosamund Gilder, Henry Hewes, Joseph Chaikin, Arthur Miller, Erika Munk, Eugene A. Monick, Jr., Joseph Papp, Joanne Pottlitzer, Harold Prince, Richard Schechner, Alan Schneider, Peter Schumann, Megan Terry] (1971) (0)
Welcome to TDR, Sun Huizhu and Richard Gough (1989) (0)
Women's Work? (2003) (0)
Stupid Plays and the Real World (1995) (0)
Encountering the Ramlila of Ramnagar: From Fieldnotes in 1978 and 2013 (2017) (0)
Letters, Etc. (2019) (0)
Letters, Etc. (2004) (0)
Richard Foreman on Richard Foreman: An Interview (1987) (0)
Social Media (2020) (0)
There’s a lot of work to do to turn this thing around: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith (2018) (0)
The Editor Replies: Peggy Wood on TDR Conference (1966) (0)
BARBA: The early years (1995) (0)
The Bottomless Cup (1964) (0)
Mudpeople There and Here: Three Reports (1987) (0)
An Interview with Augusto Boal (2016) (0)
4. Ramlila of Ramnagar (1985) (0)
The Bands of Change. An Interview with Fred Lebensold (1968) (0)
TDR Comment: Women's Work? (2003) (0)
Orthography Is Political (2021) (0)
Contributing Editors Announcement from Richard Schechner (2014) (0)
Women and "Ma" (1988) (0)
Oslo International Acting Festival 2013. Theme: The Audience (2013) (0)
Intercultural and Global Performances (2020) (0)
Oedipus Clintonius (1999) (0)
The NEA "Compromise" (1991) (0)
Spalding Gray 19412004 (2004) (0)
REHEARSALS AND DRAMATURGY (1995) (0)
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts at 50 (2016) (0)
Sara Brady Returns to TDR (2016) (0)
Joseph Chaikin: 1935-2003 (2003) (0)
THEATRE THEORY: Sociology and the actor’s technique (1995) (0)
Makbeth. "Taken from Shakespeare" (1970) (0)
Prescript to Politics (1967) (0)
6 axioms for environmental theatre: axiom three: Richard Schechner (2012) (0)
Being Contemporary (2012) (0)
Disservice to the American Theatre (1964) (0)
More Books (2016) (0)
The Blessing of the fleet (0)
American Theatre: Fission/Fusion (2018) (0)
New York: Sentimental Kazan (1965) (0)
Dr. Richard Schechner : The new third world of performance. (Video /2016) (2016) (0)
Intercultural Themes (2018) (0)
The White Man's Burden (1966) (0)
Talking with Three Actors (1986) (0)
Oedipus versus Sherlock Holmes (1965) (0)
Oh, I Know I've Been Changed (2021) (0)
New York – 1984 – Notebook 71 (2012) (0)
My Long Journey into the American Theatre (1990) (0)
5. Performer Training Interculturally (1985) (0)
FOREWORD. What Thomas Hobbes Knows About Today’s Russia (2019) (0)
Endgame Earth: Clinging to Optimism (2020) (0)
Conformists in the Heart. An Interview with Richard Schechner (1970) (0)
Mayday May Day 1992 (1992) (0)
TDR & the NEA: the Continuing Saga (1994) (0)
Talking with Kate Manheim: Unpeeling a Few Layers: An Interview (1987) (0)
So You Wanna Be a Teacher (1987) (0)
Selection of Scenes from: "Stories of Mulberry Village" (1994) (0)
TDR & the NEA (1993) (0)
Student Essay Contest Winner (2004) (0)
The Broad Spectrum of Performance (2020) (0)
TDR Announcement (2018) (0)
Joseph Chaikin, 19352003 (2003) (0)
Who Killed Cock Robin (1964) (0)
"The New Establishment"? Fragments of the TDR Theatre Conference (1966) (0)
Scalar Meets TDR (2013) (0)
Media's Inexperience (2002) (0)
Group V: Improving Design for the Technical Function: Scenography, Structure and Function (1968) (0)
The Spaces and Places of Ramnagar Ramlila (2020) (0)
At Issue: Gender in Dance (1987) (0)
The Prometheus Project (1986) (0)
Talking with the Playwright, the Musician, and the Designer (1986) (0)
André Lepecki: A New TDR Contributing Editor (2017) (0)
ARTNOW, Washington, D. C.: Be There! (1996) (0)
Kazuo Ohno Doesn't Commute: An Interview (1986) (0)
Cinema Verite. An Interview with Barbet Schroeder (1966) (0)
TDR Contributing Editors (2014) (0)
Double Edge Theatre in Its Ashfield Community: An Interview with Stacy Klein (2020) (0)
Performing in the Paleolithic (2020) (0)
A Model for the Study of Performances / Richard Schechner. (1988) (0)
Performance Processes (2020) (0)
Shame on Syracuse University Press (2011) (0)
Suresh Awasthi 19182004 (2005) (0)
Archaeology of Performance (review) (2007) (0)
The League of Time (2009) (0)
Brooks McNamara 1937–2009 (2009) (0)
From ritual to theater and back: the efﬁcacy– entertainment braid : PERFORMANCE RHYTHMS (2004) (0)
TDR Comment: Performance As a "Formation of Power and Knowledge" (2000) (0)
Interview Richard Schecher, by John C. Dawsey (text and video) (2018) (0)
The Director’s Process (2021) (0)
Grotowski e os grotowskianos (2015) (0)
Philip Auslander Responds to Concerning Theory for Performance Studies (2009) (0)
One Hand, Many Fingers (2004) (0)
The College Connection (1987) (0)
Letters, Etc.: Baffled and Dismayed (2001) (0)
Theatre Histories: An Introduction (review) (2007) (0)
The 1960’s, TDR and Performance Studies: from a 2009 interview by Ana Bigotte Vieira and Ricardo Seiça Salgado reviewed in 2014 (2015) (0)
Postpone the Great Game (2022) (0)
The Director's Process: An Interview with Rachel Chavkin (2021) (0)
return to the empty room as theatre laboratory. For practitioners wishing to pursue these paths, or for scholars seeking to understand them, these essays are indispensable. (2012) (0)
13. Ritual, Violence , and Creativity (2018) (0)
Nehad Selaiha: 1945–2017 (2017) (0)
Jerzy Grotowski's Divination Consultation: Objective Drama seminar at U.C.-Irvine J. Ndukaku Amankulor (2013) (0)
The Titanic of Everyday Life (2004) (0)
Caught by Caught (2017) (0)
By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual@@@Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self (1991) (0)
Chain of Decisions in Musical Performance (2018) (0)
Editorial: Interculturalism and Performance (2018) (0)
The Performed Word (1985) (0)
By Means of Performance: Bibliography (1990) (0)
Vibhuti Narain Singh, Maharaja of Banaras 19272000 (2001) (0)
Brooks McNamara 19372009 (2009) (0)
Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance (review) (2007) (0)
Tragada Bhavai: A Rural Theater Troupe of Gujarat. 1982. A film by Roger Sandall and Jayasinhji Jhala (1985) (0)
Speaking about China's Spoken Drama: A Roundtable with Chinese Directors and Playwrights (1989) (0)
reviews (2008) (0)
THE CHANGING FRAMES OF PERFORMANCE IN ASIAN THEATRE (2013) (0)
So You Wanna Be an Actor, a Dancer, a Performance Artist? (1987) (0)
TDR Comment: Vibhuti Narain Singh, Maharaja of Banaras, 1927-2000 (2001) (0)
Given to Dance. 1985. Produced and directed by Ron Hess (1986) (0)
We Are, After All, at War (with Planning Ahead with Adolf Hitler, by Kenneth Brown) (2008) (0)
Lee Breuer: You Are Here and There, Both 1937–2021 (2022) (0)
"We Are, After All, at War" (2008) (0)
“Points of Contact” between Anthropology and Performance (2013) (0)
Letter from Kenneth Anderson (1982) (0)
The Performance Group's Production of "Cops" (1978) (0)
TDR volume 66 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
Julie Taymor, Playing with Fire: Theater, Opera, Film (review) (1999) (0)
On Receiving an Honorary Doctorate, Warsaw, October 2017 (2018) (0)
TDR Comment: Post Post-Structuralism (2000) (0)
We Still Have to Dance and Sing: An Interview with Richard Foreman (2002) (0)
By Means of Performance: Concerning Victor Turner (1990) (0)
Performance, art et anthropologie (2009) (0)
Future nostalgias (2010) (0)
Vignettes From a Lifetime of Studying Performance (2020) (0)
TDR Comment: The Age of Terrorism (2002) (0)
Over under and around : essays in performance and culture (2004) (0)
Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen (review) (2007) (0)
Remembering Paul Gray, John O’Neal, Jerry Rojo, Andrzej Wirth, and Phillip Zarrilli (2020) (0)
Baffled and Dismayed (2001) (0)
6. Playing with Genet's Balcony: Looking Back on a 1979/1980 Production (1985) (0)
In Memory: Suresh Awasthi 1918-2004 (2005) (0)

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