A Gambler’s Instinct: The Story of Broadway Producer Cheryl Crawford

Series Statement

Milly S. Barranger is distinguished professor emerita at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she served as chairman of the Department of Dramatic Art and producing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company. She is author of Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater; Theatre: A Way of Seeing; Understanding Plays; Theatre: Past and Present; and Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era. She is also coeditor of Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary. Theater in the Americas The goal of the series is to publish a wide range of scholarship on theater and performance, defining theater in its broadest terms and including subjects that encompass all of the Americas. The series focuses on the performance and production of theater and theater artists and practitioners but welcomes studies of dramatic literature as well. Meant to be inclusive, the series invites studies of traditional, experimental, and ethnic forms of theater; celebrations, festivals, and rituals that perform culture ; and acts of civil disobedience that are performative in nature. We publish studies of theater and performance activities of all cultural groups within the Americas, including biographies of individuals, histories of theater companies, studies of cultural traditions, and collections of plays. ...