George Freedley Memorial AwardWinner

Given by Theatre Library Association

Other Names: George Freedley Memorial Award finalist
52 Works 3,253 Books 73 Reviews 4.1
The George Freedley Memorial Award was established in 1968 in honor of the first Curator of the New York Public Library’s Theatre Collection and first President of Theatre Library Association. show more The Award is presented annually to an English-language book of exceptional scholarship published or distributed in the United States during the previous calendar year that examines some aspect of live theatre or performance. The jurors may also designate an additional title for a Special Jury Prize. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (52), Special Jury Prize (18), Honorable Mention (33), Finalist (168)
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1)

Winner 52

WorkYear
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern) by Noémie Ndiaye2023
Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History by Phillips2022
Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans (Writing the Early Americas) by Juliane Braun2020
Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy by Debra Caplan2019
Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage by Sarah E. Chinn2018
For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America by Peter Benes2017
Fortune's Fool (Author Unknown) by Terry Alford2016
Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design by Arnold Aronson2015
Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof by Alisa Solomon2014
Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater by Jonathan Kalb2012
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro2011
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian by Andrew McConnell Stott2010
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern by Jayna Brown2009
The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930 by Felicia Hardison Londre2008
Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World by Kathryn Shevelow2006
Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show by Rachel Shteir2005
A History of African American Theatre by Errol G. Hill2004
Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman2003
Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia Dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture by Curator Meredith Chilton2002
The Economics of the British Stage 1800-1914 by Tracy C. Davis2001
Edward Albee by Mel Gussow2000
Stephen Sondheim: A Life by Meryle Secrest1999
Our Moonlight Revels: A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Theater (Studies in Theatre History & Culture) by Gary Jay Williams1998
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson1997
Tom : the unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich1996
Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870 by Faye E. Dudden1995
Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comédie-Française by Rachel M. Brownstein1994
The Masks of Hamlet by Marvin Rosenberg1993
Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture by Robert C. Allen1992
The Commedia Dell'Arte in Paris 1644-1697 by Virginia Scott1991
Paul Robeson by Martin Duberman1990
The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1825-1877 (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture) by Laurence Senelick1989
Shakespeare on the American Stage: From Booth and Barrett to Southern and Marlowe by Charles H. Shattuck1988
Theater in America: 200 Years of Plays, Players, and Productions by Mary C. Henderson1987
Strindberg: A Biography by Michael Meyer1986
Mrs. Pat : The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell by Margot Peters1985
Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England by Martin Meisel1984
Fanny Kemble: Leading lady of the nineteenth-century stage : a biography by J. C. Furnas1983
Clifford Odets: American Playwright: The Years from 1906 to 1940 by Margaret Brenman-Gibson1982
Bernard Shaw and the actresses by Margot Peters1981
David Garrick: A Critical Biography by George Winchester Stone1980
The Shows of London (Belknap Press) by Richard D. Altick1979
Theater design by George C. Izenour1978
Jacques Callot; Artist of the Theatre by Gerald Kahan1977
Stage Design: Four Centuries of Scenic Invention by Donald Oenslager1976
Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth century America by Robert C. Toll1975
Inigo Jones: Theatre of the Stuart Court by Stephen Orgel1974
Run-Through: A Memoir by John Houseman1973
Meyerhold"s Theatre of the Grotesque: Post-revolutionary Productions, 1920-32 by James M. Symons1972
Broadway by Brooks Atkinson1971
The Hamlet of Edwin Booth by Charles H. Shattuck1970
O'Neill: Son and Playwright by Louis Sheaffer1969

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