As If: An Autobiography
Best entry point for Blau's life, theater career, and intellectual development.
Author guide
Herbert Blau (1926–2013) was an American theater director, scholar, critic, and performance theorist. He co-founded the Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, co-directed the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, founded the experimental group KRAKEN, and held distinguished academic positions at institutions including the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the University of Washington. His writing connects theater practice with criticism, performance theory, modernism, postmodernism, fashion, politics, and cultural history.
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Best entry point for Blau's life, theater career, and intellectual development.
Foundational early manifesto articulating his ideas about experimental American theater.
Major mature work on spectatorship, performance, and theatrical theory.
Outside the series
nonfiction · 1964
nonfiction · 1982
nonfiction · 1987
nonfiction · 1990
nonfiction · 1992
nonfiction · 1999
What Herbert Blau suggests, in Nothing in Itself, is that fashion itself, today, has been anticipating and redefining, in the dazzle on the runway, or even in ready-to-wear, the terms in which it is critiqued, while sometimes giving the…
nonfiction · 2013
memoir · 2011
essay-collection · 1982
essay-collection · 2000
essay-collection · 2002
essay-collection · 2011