The Spectacular Theatre of Frank Joseph Galati: Reshaping American Theatre in Chicago, Illinois

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Dr Julie Jackson

The Spectacular Theatre of Frank Joseph Galati

Reshaping American Theatre in Chicago, Illinois

Dr Julie Jackson

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Methuen Drama
19 October 2023

Theatre: individual actors & directors

As a director, author, actor, and educator, Frank Galati has been a prominent American artist since the 1980s and continues to create new and innovative work for the theatre. The focus of this book is the remarkable Chicago years, between 1969 and 1996, in which Galati’s values and commitments were embraced and enhanced by the new theatre that emerged in his home town—a style he helped shape even as he was shaped by it. By 1990, the city was widely perceived as ground zero for the next generation of significant innovation in American theatre. There were a great many iterations of the Chicago style in those years, but Frank Galati’s theatrical inclinations, ensemble strategies, and brilliant showmanship touched them all. As this study explores, his reach extended well beyond the professional stage.

Featuring exclusive interviews with Galati, selections from his unpublished notes and speeches, the observations of colleagues on his rehearsal process, and in-depth case studies of productions written, conceived, and directed by Galati, including The Grapes of Wrath (1988–90), The Winter’s Tale (1990), and The Glass Menagerie (1994), this work offers theatre historians, patrons, scholars, and students a unique source of primary information about a pivotal figure in a significant era of American theatre.

By: Dr Julie Jackson
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350286252
ISBN 10: 1350286257
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julie Jackson taught theatre history and design at Columbia College in Chicago, USA for seventeen years and worked with Frank Galati as a professional costume designer in the city’s off-Loop theatres. She has chaired theatre programs at Marshall University and Indiana University Northwest.

Reviews for The Spectacular Theatre of Frank Joseph Galati: Reshaping American Theatre in Chicago, Illinois

This is a spectacular book about a truly spectacular figure in American theatre whose contributions of art and heart are equally magnanimous. Jackson gives us a rare, in-the-room account of Galati's thrilling vision as it unfolds-and inspiration for the kind of theatre we need now more than ever. * Della Pollock, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA *