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Dramaturg Paul Stacey interviews author of A History of the American Film, Christopher Durang.

The world is ending-again. Glaciers have bulldozed Boston and a baby mammoth is frozen to the sidewalk. What’s a New Jersey family to do?

An angry pencil has scratched out huge chunks of Tennessee Williams’s manuscript for Stairs to the Roof. These gray marks are valuable bits of graffiti: they show the young playwright’s struggle as he searched for his voice.

For Elevator Repair Service (ERS), pleasure comes from problems. “We’re not a theater company making shows,” says Artistic Director John Collins, “we are shows making a theater company.”

In 1935, Clifford Odets began a new era in American drama.

“We didn’t go hungry, but we lived lean” sums up the experience of many families during the 1930s.