Contemporary American Theatre

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Women Playwrights on Broadway: Henley, Howe, Norman and Wasserstein....Pages 15-39
Not-Quite Mainstream Male Playwrights: Guare, Durang and Rabe....Pages 41-61
New Realism: Mamet, Mann and Nelson....Pages 63-79
Black Theatre into the Mainstream....Pages 81-96
The Sound of a Voice: David Hwang....Pages 97-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Elizabeth LeCompte and the Wooster Group....Pages 117-134
Lee Breuer and Mabou Mines....Pages 135-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Beyond the Broadway Musical: Crossovers, Confusions and Crisis....Pages 151-176
Once Upon a Time in Performance Art....Pages 177-193
Performance Artist/Art Performer: Laurie Anderson....Pages 195-204
Contemporary American Dance Theatre: Clarke, Goode and Mann....Pages 205-226
From C-R to PR: Feminist Theatre in America....Pages 227-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Poets of Bohemia and Suburbia: The Post-Literary Dramaturgies of Farabough, Harrington and Shank....Pages 245-261
Not Either/Or But And: Fragmentation and Consolidation in the Post-modern Theatre of Peter Sellars....Pages 263-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-289