Transcripts of the New Broadways interviews 1995-1996

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Transcripts of the New Broadways interviews 1995-1996

Transcripts of interviews conducted by Gerald M. Berkowitz, author and retired theater professor, for his book . The collection documents, through these interviews, regional theater in the United States in the latter part of the 20th century. New Broadways

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