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Michael Townsend Smith
From the author of Near the End comes another rich text in which dream and reality overlap to generate hauntingly suggestive images and states of mind. Shot through with intimations…
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Me & Others is the story of my whole life from birth in Kansas City to vigorous old age in rural Oregon, with eventful interludes in New York City, eastern…
Comic novel about modern family life viewed through the eyes of an intelligent cat.
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Aphoristic, quasi-poetic meditation on humor as key to life’s complexities.
Memoir of a life in theatre by Michael Smith, playwright, critic, producer, lighting designer, a key player in the Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement of the 1960s and beyond.
John P. Dodd, the light man at the legendary Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village in the early sixties, assisted at the birth of Off-Off-Broadway and collaborated with key figures in…
Robert Heide
Collected plays by Robert Heide, with production details, photos, and an introduction and informative notes on the plays by the author. Preface by Michael Townsend Smith.
Dramatist, wit, and irrepressible bohemian personality, Harry Koutoukas left an indelible mark on the downtown theatre in New York and the countless lives he touched. In this spirited collection of…
Writing theatre criticism for The Village Voice from 1957 to 1974, Michael Smith lucked into an extraordinarily dynamic period in American theatre. Broadway-style commercialism was stifling innovation in the early…