5/26/2023 0 Comments Beautiful Chaos by Carey Perloff![]() She faced not only that challenge, but also the burden of having to grapple with a male-dominated industry. Perloff, 56, lets us peek behind the curtain as she, a young mother, takes charge of a once-glorious theater fallen on hard times. That trial by fire is just one of the engrossing tales Perloff shares in her lively new memoir, “Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater” (City Lights, $17.95, 268 pages). Once they realized I didn’t, they were with me.” “I still have two black binders of hate mail from that time I keep in my office to remind me of what I learned, which is how much people love this theater and how scared they were that I wanted to destroy it. in 1992 from New York’s Classic Stage Company. ![]() “It was the most upsetting, depressing, lonely experience ever,” said the candid Perloff, a Stanford alum who came to A.C.T. ![]() ![]() Audiences were fleeing from the S&M version of “Duchess of Malfi,” and local Catholics were up in arms over “The Pope and the Witch.” The theater was drowning in red ink, subscribers were bailing out, and many were pointing fingers at Perloff. Carey Perloff’s first season running the American Conservatory Theater was very nearly her last. ![]()
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