Updates to the Cambridge Guide to American Theatre.

The hardcover edition of the Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, coedited by Don Wilmeth and Tice Miller, was published in 1993. Due to the exigencies of publishing, the material covered went through most of 1992. And, not too surprisingly, given the density of factual material in the guide, a sizable number of errors (most minor) were located by the editors and a number of eagle-eyed users. To correct this situation, Cambridge University Press agreed to publish a completely updated (including about 50 new entries) and corrected paperback edition. That volume, published in 1996, edited by Wilmeth with assistance from Miller, was not simply the hardcover contents put into paper wrappers. It is quite a different volume. Despite entreaties to Cambridge to support a new edition of the Guide, thus far that has not occurred (in part, I suspect, because of copies still in the warehouse). It has become evident over the past six years or so that most users of the Guide are not aware that the two editions are not at all the same. In any case, the updates below (primarily dates for individual entries and listings in the biographical index; a few other corrections are included, such as names or errors in previous citations) are meant to accompany the 1996 paperback edition and NOT the 1993 first edition. New material appears in brackets. The updates go through 2001. The editor thanks those who have identified errors and welcomes other corrections that might be integrated into any new editions of the Guide or a further update ([e-mail]).

INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES

Babe, Thomas 1941-[2000]
Balsam, Martin 1919-[96]
Blaine, Vivian 1923-[95]
Burns, George 1896-[1996]
Caldwell, [Zoe] NO ACCENT
Canby, Vincent 1924-[2000]
Cantor, Arthur 1920-[2001]
Cassidy, Claudia [19007-96]
Clark, Peggy [1916-96]
Coe, Richard Livingston 1916-[95]
Cohen, Alexander H. 1920-[2000]
Corio, Ann 19077-[99]
Crothers, Rachel [1870]-1958
Darymple, Jean [1902?-98]
Douglass, David ?-[1789]
Dressler, Marie [nee Leila Koerber]
Dukes, David 1945-[2000]
[d'] Usseau, Arnaud
Eckart, William 1920-[2000]
Edwards, Ben 1916-[99]
Elder, Eldon [1921-2000]
Elder, Lonne III 1931-[96]
Elson, Charles 1909-[2000]
Feder, Abe 1909-[97]
Foster, Gloria 1936-[2001]
Gennaro, Peter 1924-[2000]
Gill, Brendan 1914-[97]
Guernsey, Otis Love, Jr. 1918-[2001]
Hanlon-Lees, Thomas [1833]-68;
George [1835]-1926;
William [1839]-1923;
Alfred [1842]-86;
Edward [1845]-1931
Heckart, Eileen 1919-[2001]
Henning, Doug 1947-[2000]
Hickey, William 1928-[97]
Houghton, (Charles) Norris 1909-[2001]
John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts: IN TEXT
James Wolfensohn (1990-[96])
Kanin, Garson 1912-[99]
Kiley, Richard 1922-[99]
Kroll, Jack [1926?-2000]
Leve, Samuel [1908/1910-99]
Lewis, Robert 1909-[97]
Maher, Joseph 1933-[98]
Marshall, E.G. 1910[/14-98]
Meisner, Sanford 1905-[97]
Meredith, Burgess 1907-[97]
Merrick, David 1912-[2000]
Merrill, Bob 1921-[98]
Mitchell, Loften 1919-[2001]
Montez, Lola [1820]-61
Nelson, Richard (lighting designer)
1938-[96]
Oliver, Edith 1913-[98]
Opatoshu, David 1918-[96]
Platt, Livingston [1874-1933/39?]
Quintero, Jose 1924-[99]
Rabb, Ellis 1930-[98]
Richards, Beah [1926?-2000]
Richardson, Lee 1926-[99]
Robbins, Jerome 1918-[98]
Scott, George C. 1927-[99]
Stanley, Kim 1925-[2001]
Stroman, Susan [1954-]
Taylor, Samuel 1912-[2000]
Tesich, Steve 1942-[96]
Tyler, Royall [1757]-1826
Verdon, Gwen [1925-2000]
Wright, Garland 1946-[98]
Zipprodt, Patricia 1925-[99]

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

Austin, Lyn 1922-[2000]
Borge, Victor 1909-[2000]
Caesar, Irving 1895-[1996]
Daniels, Ron [1942-]
Darion, Joe [1911?-2001]
Ebert, Joyce 1933-[97]
Efremov, Olge 1927-[2000]
Forrest, George 1915-[99]
Francis, Arlene 1908-[2001]
Gassman, Vittorio 1922-[2000]
Gebel-Williams, Gunther 1934-[2001]
Gielgud, John 1904-[2000]
Ginsberg, Allen 1926-[97]
Goldman, James 1927-[98]
Grotowski, Jerzy 1933-[99]
Guinness, Alec 1914- [2000]
Hammerstein, James 1931-[99]
Hartmann [Hartman]
Herbert, John 1926-[2001]
Hunter, Kermit 1910-[2001]
Jacobs, Bernard B. 1916-[96]
Jones, Sisieretta [Sissierretta]
Kahn, Madeline 1942-[99]
Karnilova, Maria 1920-[2001]
Kaye, Stubby 1918-[97]
Kelly, Gene 1912-[96]
Kirby, Michael 1931-[97]
Lane, Burton 1912-[97]
Lemmon, Jack 1925-[2001]
MacDermott [MacDermot]
McGuire, Dorothy 1919-[2001]
Maggio, Michael [1950/51-2000]
Martin, Manuel 1934-[2000]
Massey, Daniel 1933-[98]
Matthau, Walter 1920-[2000]
Melfi, Leonard 1935-[2001]
Michener, James A. 1907-[97]
Miller, Jason 1939-[2001]
Moody, Richard 1911-[96]
Nash, N. Richard 1913-[2000]
O'Sullivan, Maureen 1911-[98]
Paterson, Louis 1922-[98]
Premice, Josephine 1926-[2001]
Quinn, Anthony 1915-[2001]
Schmidt, Paul 1934-[99]
Sherman, Stuart [1946-2001]
Sterner, Jerry 1938-[2001]
Stewart, James 1908-[97]
Stickney, Dorothy [1897/] 1900/3-[98]
Straight, Beatrice [1915-2001]
Strasberg, Susan 1938-[99]
Taubman, Howard 1907-[96]
Tutin, Dorothy 1931-[2001]
Van Fleet, Jo [1915-96]
Walston, Ray [1916-2001]
Weidman, Jerome 1913-[98]
Wittop, Freddy [1912-2001]