Theatre

This engaging memoir is presented as a series of lucky breaks, or surprise turning points in the story that led to Robert Cohen''s dramatic success in theatre arts. In retrospect, it would have been a great surprise had Cohen not ended up in theatre ... Read more

This engaging memoir is presented as a series of lucky breaks, or surprise turning points in the story that led to Robert Cohen''s dramatic success in theatre arts. In retrospect, it would have been a great surprise had Cohen not ended up in theatre arts, given his early fascination with the stage, his chance at a young age to see original cast productions of Broadway plays, and the influence of his uncle, Marty Goldblatt, a publicist for Columbia Pictures who hobnobbed with celebrities of stage and screen. It was inevitable-Robert Cohen became a man of the theatre, not only acting but also working as a stage manager, a set designer, a lighting designer, a costume designer, and a director. He has been a professor of stagecraft and the builder from the ground up of the University of California at Irvine''s prestigious drama department and student repertory theatre; he has written important textbooks on acting and on the acting career (Acting Power); and he has become an internationally respected drama theorist (the Cybernetic Acting Theory). Less