What is Jack Viertel?
{{notability|date=January 2024}} [[File:Jack_viertel_5200736.jpg|thumb|Jack Viertel reading at the 2017 Gaithersburg Book Festival]] '''Jack Viertel''' (born February 7, 1949) is an [[United States|American]] theatrical producer and writer. He was born in [[Stamford, Connecticut]]. From 2000 to 2020, he was a producer at the [[Encores!]] series.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/theater/jack-viertel-encores.html|title=Jack Viertel Stepping Down at Encores! After 20 Years as Leader|last=Paulson|first=Michael|date=2019-07-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-07-03|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/196398/jack-viertel-will-step-down-as-encores-artistic-director-following-2020-season/|title=Jack Viertel Will Step Down as Encores! Artistic Director Following 2020 Season|website=Broadway.com|language=en|access-date=2020-07-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=McPhee|first=Ryan|title=Jack Viertel to Step Down as City Center Encores! Artistic Director|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/jack-viertel-to-step-down-as-city-center-encores-artistic-director|access-date=2020-07-03|website=Playbill|language=en}}</ref> == Works == * ''The Secret Life of the American Musical'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. ISBN 978-0-374-53689-3<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/books/review/the-secret-life-of-the-american-musical-by-jack-viertel.html|title='The Secret Life of the American Musical,' by Jack Viertel|last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|date=2016-03-09|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-07-03|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-11-29/how-build-perfect-musical|title=How to build the perfect musical|website=The World from PRX|language=en|access-date=2020-07-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/state-of-the-art/article61169697.html|title=The American musical gets dissected wisely by Jack Viertel|website=Charlotte Observer}}</ref