"In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect
biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her
perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and
important theater figure whose public and private lives were of
equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's
colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I
wish she were here to read it."
-Marian Seldes
""Margaret Webster" is a highly welcome addition to our knowledge
of the first important female director in American theater.
Remembered now especially for her staging of Othello with Paul
Robeson, Uta Hagen, and Jose Ferrer, Margaret Webster was probably
the best-known, in-demand, and admired director of Shakespeare in
America in the 1940s and 1950s. Fascinating throughout, the book's
discussions of working with Robeson, and of HUAC, which targeted
her just as her career was reaching a peak, make for especially
engrossing reading."
-Oscar Brockett
"Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater" is an engrossing
backstage account of the life of pioneering director Margaret
Webster (1905-72).
This is the first book-length biography of Webster, a
groundbreaking stage and opera director whose career challenged not
only stage tradition but also mainstream attitudes toward
professional women.
Often credited with first having brought Shakespeare to Broadway,
and renowned for her bold casting of an African American (Paul
Robeson) in the role of Othello, Webster was a creative force in
modern American and British theater.
Her story reveals the independent-minded artist undeterred by stage
tradition and unmindful of rules about a woman's place in the
professionaltheater. In addition to providing fascinating glimpses
into Webster's personal and family life, "Margaret Webster: A Life
in the Theater" also offers a who's-who list of the biggest names
in New York and London theater of the time, as well as Hollywood:
John Gielgud, Noel Coward, George Bernard Shaw, Uta Hagen, Sybil
Thorndike, Eva LeGallienne, and John Barrymore, among others, all
of whom crossed paths with Webster. Capping Webster's amazing story
is her investigation by Senator Joseph McCarthy and HUAC, which
left her unable to work for a year, and from which she never fully
recovered.
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