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Explore 20th century entertainment through the lens of Hirschfeld drawings
David & Katherine celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Lively Years, a collaboration by Al Hirschfeld and his friend, theater critic Brooks Atkinson, featuring over 80 old and new drawings by Hirschfeld looking back at over 50 years of American theatre.
Follow along with the show notes to view the works mentioned in this episode:
Brooks Atkinson
Our Town
The Visit, 1958
R.U.R., 1973
Waiting For Godot
Summer and Smoke, 1952
Arthur Miller
The Beautiful People, 1941
Sidney Lumet
Critic and Artist Escaping the Theater, 1948
Guys and Dolls, 1950
The Iceman Cometh, 1946
The Cradle Will Rock, 1938 (with added "Nina")
Born Yesterday, 1946 (Right Side)
Henry Hull in Tobacco Road (1935)
Winterset - 1935 & 1973
Idiot's Delight (1973)
Golden Boy (1973)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois: 1938 (Original) - 1971 (Pulitzer Prize series) - 1973
Watch On The Rhine: 1941 - 1973
There Shall Be No Night: 1940 - 1973
The Skin of Our Teeth: 1942 - 1973
Bury The Dead, 1973
Osgood Perkins (Lively Years Cover), 1973
One Third of a Nation, 1973
Nathan George in No Place To Be Somebody, 1973
Lost In The Stars: Black Theater Makers Drawn By Hirschfeld - Online Exhibition
Hair, 1968
West Side Story, 1957
Raisin in the Sun, 1973
Lena Horne
Hirschfeld's Original Drawings for The Lively Years (1973)
