Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: America Defined and Refined....Pages 1-10
The Savage Other: “Indianizing” and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture....Pages 11-27
Defining Faith: Theatrical Reactions to Pro-Slavery Christianity in Antebellum America....Pages 29-45
Negotiating a New Identity: Irish Americans and the Variety Theatre in the 1860s....Pages 47-64
Drama and Cultural Pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell’s Inheritors....Pages 65-80
Beneath the Horizon: Pipe Dreams, Identity, and Capital in Eugene O’Neill’s First Broadway Play....Pages 81-99
Vernacularizing Brecht: The Political Theatre of the New Deal....Pages 101-119
Let Freedom Ring: Mordecai Gorelik’s Politicized Stage Designs....Pages 121-138
Choreographing America: Redefining American Ballet in the Age of Consensus....Pages 139-155
Arthur Miller: In Memoriam....Pages 157-164
Menageries, Melting Pots, Movies: Tennessee on America....Pages 165-180
Facts on Trial: Documentary Theatre and Zoot Suit....Pages 181-198
“The Ground on Which I Stand is I, too, Am America”: African American Cycle Dramatists, Dramas, and the Voice of Inclusion....Pages 199-215
My Uncle Sam in Consumer Society: Len Jenkin and the Death of Death of a Salesman....Pages 217-232
From Paradise to Parasite: Information Theory, Noise, and Disequilibrium in John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation....Pages 233-242
Not “Very Steven Spielberg”?: Angels in America on Film....Pages 243-255
Reflections in a Pool: Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses and Post-9/11 New York City....Pages 257-269
An American Echo: Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play and James Scruggs’s Disposable Men....Pages 271-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-303