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Copyright 1994 Appler, Gilbert Keith Hurt, James R. Appler, Gilbert Keith 2011-05-07T13:33:12Z 2011-05-07T13:33:12Z 10000-01-01 1994 During the cultural war of the 1990s, a major institutional theater presented socially-serious art which represented multiple positions on important topics while striving for artistic excellence. Chicago's Goodman Theatre sought social relevance, though its productions, in representing and conciliating people in its diverse audience, adopted a parodic strategy instead of taking clear points of view. "Since the 1960s, regional theaters have distinguished themselves from commercial Broadway as cultural leaders committed simultaneously to ""art"" and to social progress. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, as art became more politically engaged, regional theaters have adopted strategies to maintain their legitimacy and funding. Theaters, while giving classic plays professional performances, demonstrated their social commitment by producing classics in relevant ways and by selecting and developing new plays on serious topics. At the same time, theaters strove to include diverse people in their audiences and to represent their serious concerns. This meant that these theaters engaged with controversial issues but avoided clear positions to maintain their community, and represented differing positions of their diverse audience members. The resulting plays and performance texts were structurally parodic, or double- or multicoded." Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:33:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9512288.pdf: 12739992 bytes, checksum: 99ddebc8798e268b4c17cdfecc2a3593 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1994 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:56:12Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:26:15-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9512288 (UMI)AAI9512288 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22229 eng American Studies Theater Literature, American Chicago's Goodman Theatre: Plays and cultural work in an institutional theater text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.