DOC From Handprints to Hypotheses: Using the Project Approach with Toddlers and Twos (NONE) by Todd Wanerman in Arts-Photography

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An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging; inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays; manifestos; letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted writer and arts commentator; Todd London; who spent nearly a decade assembling this collection. This celebration of the artists who came before is an exhilarating look backward; as well as toward the future; and includes contributions from: Jane Addams • William Ball • Julian Beck • Herbert Blau • Angus Bowmer • Bernard Bragg • Maurice Browne • Robert Brustein • Alison Carey • Joseph Chaikin • Harold Clurman • Dudley Cocke • Alice Lewisohn Crowley • Gordon Davidson • R. G. Davis • Doris Derby • W. E. B. Du Bois • Zelda Fichandler • Hallie Flanagan • Eva Le Gallienne • Robert E. Gard • Susan Glaspell • Andreacute; Gregory • Tyrone Guthrie • John Houseman • Jules Irving • Margo Jones • Frederick H. Koch • Lawrence Langner • W. McNeil Lowry • Charles Ludlam • Judith Malina • Theodore Mann • Gilbert Moses • Michaela Orsquo;Harra • John Orsquo;Neal • Joseph Papp • Robert Porterfield • Joseacute; Quintero • Bill Rauch • Bernard Sahlins • Richard Schechner • Peter Schumann • Maurice Schwartz • Gary Sinise • Ellen Stewart • Lee Strasberg • Luis Miguel Valdez • Nina Vance • Douglas Turner Ward As well as the founding visions of theatres from across the country: The Actors Studio • The Actors Workshop • Alley Theatre • American Conservatory Theater • American Repetory Theater • Arena Stage • Barter Theatre • Bread and Puppet Theater • The Carolina Playmakers • The Chicago Little Theater • Circle in the Square Theatre • The Civic Repertory Theatre • Cornerstone Theater Company • The Federal Theatre Project • Ford Foundation Program in Humanities and the Arts • The Free Southern Theater • The Group Theatre • The Hull-House Dramatic Association • KRIGWA Players • The Living Theatre • La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club • The Mark Taper Forum • The Mercury Theatre • Minnesota Theater Company (Guthrie Theater) • The National Theatre of the Deaf • The Negro Ensemble Company • The Negro Theatre Project; Federal Theatre Project • The Neighborhood Playhouse • New Dramatists • The New York Shakespeare Festival • The Open Theater • Oregon Shakespeare Festival • The Performance Group • The Provincetown Players • The Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center • The Ridiculous Theatrical Company • Roadside Theater • The San Francisco Mime Troupe • The Second City • Steppenwolf Theatre Company • El Teatro Campesino • Theater 47 • The Theatre Guild • The Theatre of the Living Arts • The Washington Square Players • The Wisconsin Idea Theater • Yale Repertory Theatre • The Yiddish Art Theatre Todd London is in his 18th season as artistic director of New Dramatists; the nationrsquo;s oldest center for the creative and professional development of American playwrights. In 2009 Todd became the first recipient of Theatre Communications Grouprsquo;s (TCG) Visionary Leadership Award for “an individual who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to advance the theater field as a whole; nationally and/or internationally.rdquo; Hersquo;s the author of The Importance of Staying Earnest: Writings from Inside the American Theatre; 1988-2013 (NoPassport Press); Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play (with Ben Pesner; Theatre Development Fund); The Artistic Home (TCG); and The Worldrsquo;s Room; a novel (Steerforth Press); among others. His column; “A Loverrsquo;s Guide to American Playwrights;rdquo; tributes to contemporary