Nikolai and the Others: A Play

By Richard Nelson

Richard Nelson's play Nikolai and the Others is "an engrossing work . . . marvelous" (New York magazine).

In Nikolai and the Others, Richard Nelson imagines the relationships between Balanchine and Stravinsky, their friends, lovers, wives and ex-wives, supporters, and dancers (including Maria Tallchief and Nicholas Magallanes), at the time of their historic collaboration on the ballet Orpheus.

Orpheus would be the spectacular inaugural production of the newly formed New York City Ballet. The play also explores the controversial ways American art and artistic institutions were funded at the outset of the Cold War--including the subtle hand of the State Department in the postwar cultural scene.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146830853X
• ISBN13: 9781468308532
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher