Episode 43 – Brooks Atkinson & The Lively Years The Hirschfeld Century Podcast

David & Katherine celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Lively Years, a collaboration by Al Hirschfeld and his friend, theater critic Brooks Atkinson, featuring over 80 old and new drawings by Hirschfeld looking back at over 50 years of American theatre.



Follow along with the show notes to view the works mentioned in this episode:



Brooks Atkinson



Our Town



The Visit, 1958



R.U.R., 1973 



Waiting For Godot



Summer and Smoke, 1952



Arthur Miller



The Beautiful People, 1941



Sidney Lumet



Critic and Artist Escaping the Theater, 1948



Guys and Dolls, 1950



The Iceman Cometh, 1946



The Cradle Will Rock, 1938 (with added "Nina")



Born Yesterday, 1946 (Right Side) 



Henry Hull in Tobacco Road (1935)



Winterset - 1935 & 1973



Idiot's Delight (1973)



Golden Boy (1973)



Abe Lincoln in Illinois: 1938 (Original) - 1971 (Pulitzer Prize series) - 1973



Watch On The Rhine: 1941 - 1973



There Shall Be No Night: 1940 - 1973



The Skin of Our Teeth: 1942 - 1973 



Bury The Dead, 1973



Osgood Perkins (Lively Years Cover), 1973



One Third of a Nation, 1973



Nathan George in No Place To Be Somebody, 1973



Lost In The Stars: Black Theater Makers Drawn By Hirschfeld - Online Exhibition



Hair, 1968



West Side Story, 1957



Raisin in the Sun, 1973



Lena Horne



Hirschfeld's Original Drawings for The Lively Years (1973)



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