Forthcoming: The Roger L. Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress

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Beteiligte: Martin, Brian
In: Theatre Survey, 38, 1997, 2, S. 159-161
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Umfang: 159-161
ISSN: 0040-5574
1475-4533
DOI: 10.1017/s0040557400002118
veröffentlicht in: Theatre Survey
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: Cambridge University Press (CUP) (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>Roger Stevens has always been a visionary. His career began in real estate, where he gained national recognition for buying the Empire State Building for $51.5 million—at the time the highest price ever paid for one building—and selling it three years later for a ten-million dollar profit. As he expanded into theatre, he quickly became one of the nation's foremost producers on Broadway, producing more than 200 shows over the last half century, including <jats:italic>West Side Story, A Man for All Seasons, Bus Stop, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Deathtrap</jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Mary, Mary</jats:italic>. He “discovered” playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and Terence Rattigan for New York audiences, and he has worked closely with others, already established, such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Jean Giraudoux, and T.S. Eliot Three United States presidents have depended on Stevens for their arts and humanities policy, and the American theatrical community has benefitted from his intuitive vision.</jats:p>