The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Mar 1 - Mar 10, 2013
Adapted by Simon Levy - Only stage version authorized by the Fitzgerald estate since 1926
Directed by Richard Keitel

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Prime Stage is proud to work with the Pittsburgh Jazz Society to bring The Great Gatsby to life!
Be sure to listen to the great sounds of jazz.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Check out our exclusive interview with Simon Levy - playright who's award winning adaptation of The Great Gatsby is the only stage version authorized by the Fitzgerald estate since 1926. Prime Stage Education Director Monica Stephenson recently had the opportunity to interview Simon Levy about his adaptation of The Great Gatsby. READ INTERVIEW

Great information on The Great Gatsby 

Fitzgerald's ambitious goal as he approached the composition of The Great Gatsby was to "write something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." 

Web version of the novel:
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/contents.html

Gatsby in a nutshell:
http://www.shmoop.com/great-gatsby/

“The Jazz Age:”
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920s_America.htm

Dances of “The Jazz Age:” http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/jazz_age.htm

Tales from the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald: http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/fs-fitzgerald/Jazz-Age.pdf

Brooklyn Museum - Exhibitions: Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/youth_beauty/?gclid
=CLairLiOl7ICFYEQNAodmRoAyQ

“The Jazz Age” PowerPoint: www.mathiaslink.com/us/The_Jazz_Age.ppt

"Jazz Age Slang”
http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3190.F_Scott_Fitzgerald

Brief background on the writing of The Great Gatsby: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/gatsby.htm

The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society: http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/ 

F. Scott Fitzgerald PBS biography: http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html