Interrogating America through theatre and performance

Abstract

Savage Other: Indianizing and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture R.K. Bank Defining Faith: Theatrical Reactions to Pro-Slavery Christianity in Antebellum America A.E. Hughes Negotiating a New Identity: Irish-Americans and the Variety Theatre in the 1860s S. Kattwinkel Drama and Cultural Pluralism In America of Susan Glaspell's Inheritors. N.H.Real Beneath the Horizon: Pipe Dreams, Identity, and Capital in Eugene O'Neill's First Broadway Play J.E.Jenkins Vernacularizing Brecht: Political Theater of the New Deal I.Saal Let Freedom Ring: Mordecai Gorelik's Politicized Stage Designs A.Fletcher Choreographing Re-defining American Ballet in the Age of Consensus A.Harris Arthur Miller: In Memoriam C.Bigsby Menageries, Melting Pots, Movies: Tennessee on America J.V. Haedicke Facts on Trial: Documentary Theatre and Zoot Suit J.O'Connor The Ground on Which I Stand is I, Too, Am America: African American Cycle Dramatists, Dramas and the Voice of Inclusion L.Menson-Furr My Uncle Sam in Consumer Society: Len Jenkin and the Death of Death of a Salesman S.Feffer From Paradise to Parasite: Information Theory, Noise, and Disequilibrium in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation M.Heuvel Not Very Steven Spielberg?: Angels in America on Film D.Geis Reflections in a Pool: Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and post-9/11 New York City A.Nouryeh An American Echo: Suzan-Lori Parks's America Play and James Scruggs's Disposable Men R.Vorlicky List of Contributors Index