''Encore Theatre Magazine'' is an online magazine relating to contemporary

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published in the

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History

''Encore Theatre Magazine'' begun publication in May 2003. It was inspired by the defunct magazine of the same title (''Encore''), which had a brief but influential life from 1954 to 1965. The magazine describes its history thus: Articles published in the original ''Encore'' were reprinted in a volume entitled ''The Encore Reader: A Chronicle of New Drama''. According to

Robert Brustein Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21, 1927) is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded both the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Ma ...

, the original magazine ''Encore'' embodied both the virtues and the failings of the movement it examined; he criticizes it for being "bursting with energy, vigor, and excitement" but being "seriously lacking in balanced

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s or penetrating ideas."

, ''

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'' (New York:

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, 1969) 125.

References

General references

*Brandt, G.W. Rev. of ''The'' Encore ''Reader: A Chronicle of the New Drama'', ed. by

Charles Marowitz Charles Marowitz (26 January 1934 – 2 May 2014) was an American critic, theatre director, and playwright, regular columnist on Swans Commentary. He collaborated with Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and later founded and direct ...

, Tom Milne, and Owen Hale. ''

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'' 62.1 (Jan. 1967): 123–25.

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