rebecca h.

Although live theatre is viewed by many as the most ephemeral of art forms, leaving behind few artifacts, Schneider (theatre, film, and dance, Cornell U.) and Cody (drama and film, Vassar College) argue that many techniques, styles, and methods reappear in citation, reenactment, adaptation within and across media. They present 41 essays selected from the four-decade run of the journal The Drama Review (with occasional additions from other journals) which demonstrate the ebbs and flows of directing styles that disappear and reappear in the practice of theory. As the nature of the journal was necessarily conditioned by the tenure of its editors, the material is grouped into categories related to the respective editorships of Robert Corrigan (1955-62), Richard Schechner (1963-9), Erika Munk (1969-70), Michael Kirby (1971-85), and Schechner again with associate editor Mariellen Sandford (1986-present). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)