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li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Playwright</li> <li>novelist</li> <li>actress</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data">Chicago Foundation for Literature Award (1938)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alice Erya Gerstenberg</b> (August 2, 1885 – July 28, 1972) was an American <a href="/wiki/Playwright" title="Playwright">playwright</a>, actress, and activist best known for her experimental, <a href="/wiki/Feminist" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminist">feminist</a> drama and her involvement with the <a href="/wiki/Little_Theatre_Movement" title="Little Theatre Movement">Little Theatre Movement</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_Gerstenberg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gerstenberg was born in Chicago, Illinois, the only child of Julia and Erich Gerstenberg. Gerstenberg's grandfather was a founder and member of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Board_of_Trade" title="Chicago Board of Trade">Chicago Board of Trade</a> in 1848, a position Gerstenberg's father inherited later on, which meant that the Gerstenbergs enjoyed a higher standard of living than most middle-class families in Chicago at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-atlas_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-atlas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Growing up, Gerstenberg had ample travel experiences and social indulgences including commercial theater. She attended a private school in Chicago and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Bryn_Mawr_College" title="Bryn Mawr College">Bryn Mawr College</a> in 1907. After college, she spent some time in New York watching the rehearsals of <a href="/wiki/David_Belasco" title="David Belasco">David Belasco</a> before returning home to Chicago.<sup id="cite_ref-chansky_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chansky-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_Gerstenberg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After living in New York for a period, Gerstenberg returned to Chicago, where she continued to write plays; became involved with the <a href="/wiki/Little_Theatre_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Theatre movement">Little Theatre movement</a>, supported her parents, and exercised a strong feminist dedication to bringing non-commercial theater to new playwrights, children, and Chicagoans.<sup id="cite_ref-atlas_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-atlas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her previous involvement with the theater during her childhood, the plays she wrote at college, as well as the time spent in New York led her to continue writing plays for the rest of her life, working occasionally as an actress, and maintaining an activist role in the theater. <i><a href="/wiki/Overtones" class="mw-redirect" title="Overtones">Overtones</a></i> has continued to be produced since its publication in 1913.<sup id="cite_ref-chansky_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chansky-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Themes_and_plays">Themes and plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_Gerstenberg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Themes and plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1913, Gerstenberg wrote <i>Overtones</i>, a one-act play, her second stage play, and her most frequently performed and printed, which was first produced in November 1915 by the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Square_Players" title="Washington Square Players">Washington Square Players</a> at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bandbox_Theater&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bandbox Theater (page does not exist)">Bandbox Theater</a> in New York.<sup id="cite_ref-atlas_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-atlas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been anthologized alongside <a href="/wiki/Susan_Glaspell" title="Susan Glaspell">Susan Glaspell</a>’s <i><a href="/wiki/Trifles" class="mw-redirect" title="Trifles">Trifles</a></i> as classic examples of modern <a href="/w/index.php?title=One-act_plays&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="One-act plays (page does not exist)">one-act plays</a> by women involved in the little theater movement.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The play, which combines experimental form with conventional dramatic conflict, enjoyed many productions due to its innovative use of the split subject, a technique <a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a> would later use in his play <i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Interlude" title="Strange Interlude">Strange Interlude</a></i>. Gerstenberg continued to write many one-act plays early on in her career, many of which were performed by regional or little theaters in and around Chicago.<sup id="cite_ref-chansky_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chansky-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The majority of these plays demonstrate her feminist tendencies – critiquing the social roles and decision which constrained women of the time.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Gerstenberg continued to write plays throughout her life, later on publishing several radio plays as well as several commissioned dramatizations of children's stories. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regional_theater_and_the_Little_Theater_Movement">Regional theater and the Little Theater Movement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_Gerstenberg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Regional theater and the Little Theater Movement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gerstenberg played a crucial role in the foundation and success of several theater companies as well as the Little Theater Movement in Chicago. In 1921, she founded the Junior League Children's Theater in Chicago; in 1922 she founded the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Playwrights_Theater&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Playwrights Theater (page does not exist)">Playwrights Theater</a>; and she supported an amateur theater company that was eventually named for her at its foundation in 1955.<sup id="cite_ref-chansky_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chansky-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gerstenberg was one of a handful of women invited to speak at the National Drama Council and National Theatre Conference. In 1936 she was an invited speaker at three AETA conferences and she won the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award in 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-chansky_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chansky-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gerstenberg had many opportunities to move to New York, but instead chose to remain in Chicago.<sup id="cite_ref-chansky_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chansky-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plays_and_novels">Plays and novels</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_Gerstenberg&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Plays and novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Plays</dt></dl> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Small_World&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Small World (page does not exist)">A Small World</a></i> (1908)</li> <li><i>Overtones</i> (1913), one-act edition</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_in_Wonderland_(1915_play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alice in Wonderland (1915 play) (page does not exist)">Alice in Wonderland</a></i> (1915), dramatization of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Buffer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Buffer (page does not exist)">The Buffer</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beyond_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beyond (play) (page does not exist)">Beyond</a></i> (1917)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearts_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hearts (play) (page does not exist)">Hearts</a></i> (1917)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attuned&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Attuned (page does not exist)">Attuned</a></i> (1918)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Unseen_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Unseen (play) (page does not exist)">The Unseen</a></i> (1918)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illuminati_in_Drama_Libre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Illuminati in Drama Libre (page does not exist)">Illuminati in Drama Libre</a></i> (1919)</li> <li><i>He Said and She Said</i> (1919) - One-act comedy of gossip.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fourteen_(play)" title="Fourteen (play)">Fourteen</a></i> (1920)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ten_One-Act_Plays&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ten One-Act Plays (page does not exist)">Ten One-Act Plays</a></i> (1921)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pot_Boiler_or_The_Dress_Rehearsal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Pot Boiler or The Dress Rehearsal (page does not exist)">The Pot Boiler or The Dress Rehearsal</a></i> (1923)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Four_Plays_for_Women&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Four Plays for Women (page does not exist)">Four Plays for Women</a></i> (1924)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mah-Johngg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mah-Johngg (page does not exist)">Mah-Johngg</a></i> (1924)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Their_Husband&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Their Husband (page does not exist)">Their Husband</a></i> (1924)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ever_Young&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ever Young (page does not exist)">Ever Young</a></i> (1924)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaweed_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seaweed (play) (page does not exist)">Seaweed</a></i> (1924)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=At_the_Club_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="At the Club (play) (page does not exist)">At the Club</a></i> (1925)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Land_of_%22Don%E2%80%99t_Want_To%22&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Land of "Don’t Want To" (page does not exist)">The Land of "Don’t Want To"</a></i> (1928), dramatization of <a href="/wiki/Lilian_Bell" title="Lilian Bell">Lilian Bell's</a> children's story</li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lilian_Bell_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Lilian_Bell_001.jpg/120px-Lilian_Bell_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Lilian_Bell_001.jpg/180px-Lilian_Bell_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Lilian_Bell_001.jpg/240px-Lilian_Bell_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1872" data-file-height="2992" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lilian_Bell" title="Lilian Bell">Lilian Bell</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i>Overtones</i> (1929), three act edition</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Comedies_All&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Comedies All (page does not exist)">Comedies All</a></i> (1930)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Water_Babies_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Water Babies (play) (page does not exist)">The Water Babies</a></i> (1930), dramatization of Charles Kingsley's work</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentience_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sentience (play) (page does not exist)">Sentience</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Glee_Plays_the_Game&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glee Plays the Game (page does not exist)">Glee Plays the Game</a></i> (1934)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Within_the_Hour&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Within the Hour (page does not exist)">Within the Hour</a></i> (1934)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Across_the_River_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Across the River (play) (page does not exist)">Across the River</a></i> (1939), radio play</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lake_Front&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lake Front (page does not exist)">Lake Front</a></i> (1939), radio play</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Time_for_Romance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Time for Romance (page does not exist)">Time for Romance</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Got_Your_Number_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Got Your Number (play) (page does not exist)">Got Your Number</a></i> (1942, unpublished)</li> <li>‘’<a href="/w/index.php?title=Victory_Belles&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Victory Belles (page does not exist)">Victory Belles</a> ‘’ (play) 1944)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_the_Beam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="On the Beam (page does not exist)">On the Beam</a></i> (1963, unpublished)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Time_for_Living_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Time for Living (play) (page does not exist)">Time for Living</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Concordia_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Concordia (play) (page does not exist)">Concordia</a></i> (Unpublished, n.d.)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Port_of_Chicago_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Port of Chicago (play) (page does not exist)">Port of Chicago</a></i> (Unpublished, n.d.)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Hourglass_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Hourglass (play) (page does not exist)">The Hourglass</a></i> (n.d.)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Novels</dt></dl> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unquenched_Fire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Unquenched Fire (page does not exist)">Unquenched Fire</a></i> (1912)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Conscience_of_Sarah_Platt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Conscience of Sarah Platt (page does not exist)">The Conscience of Sarah Platt</a></i> (1915)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_Gerstenberg&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gerstenberg's play <i>Overtones</i>, her most frequently performed and printed work, was adapted into the chamber opera <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Clever_Artifice_of_Harriet_and_Margaret&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret (page does not exist)">The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret</a> in 2013 by composer-librettist Leanna Kirchoff. The opera won the National Opera Association's 2014-2016 Chamber Opera Composition Competition,<sup id="cite_ref-considine_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-considine-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was given its professional premiere by <a href="/wiki/Really_Spicy_Opera" title="Really Spicy Opera">Really Spicy Opera</a> at the Minnesota Fringe Festival in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-Minnesota_Fringe_Festival_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Minnesota_Fringe_Festival-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The opera was later staged by the National Opera Association and Gateway Opera in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-Composer_Website_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Composer_Website-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_Gerstenberg&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-atlas-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-atlas_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-atlas_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-atlas_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Atlas, Marilyn. "Alice (Erya) Gerstenberg." <i>Dictionary of Midwestern Literature</i>. 1. Philip A. Greasley (ed.) Indianapolis: 2001. Print.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-chansky-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-chansky_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-chansky_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-chansky_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-chansky_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-chansky_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-chansky_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Chansky, Dorothy. "Textbook Cases: Learning to Be and See Little Theater Women." in Composing Ourselves: The Little Theater Movement and the American Audience. 1st ed. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. 164 -185. Print.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSchallert1919" class="citation news cs1">Schallert, Edwin (November 19, 1919). "Drama". <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. Los Angeles, California. p. 32 – via <a href="/wiki/Newspapers.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspapers.com">Newspapers.com</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Drama&rft.pages=32&rft.date=1919-11-19&rft.aulast=Schallert&rft.aufirst=Edwin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlice+Gerstenberg" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-considine-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-considine_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Considine, Basil. "Opera minus the high costs and testosterone." <i>Twin Cities Daily Planet</i>, January 24, 2015.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Minnesota_Fringe_Festival-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Minnesota_Fringe_Festival_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Minnesota Fringe Festival. "The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Composer_Website-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Composer_Website_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirchoff, Leanna. Composer website. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.leannakirchoff.com/">http://www.leannakirchoff.com/</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alice_Gerstenberg&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Atlas, Marilyn. (1982) Alice Gerstenberg's Psychological Drama</li> <li>Hecht, Stuart. (1992) The Plays of Alice Gerstenberg: Cultural Hegemony in the American Little Theater</li> <li>Maddock, Mary. (1994) Alice Gerstenberg's Overtones: The Demon in the Dell</li> <li>Shafer, Yvonne. 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