Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

Contents

• The 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 The 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: The Political Theater of the New Deal
• I.Saal Let Freedom Ring: Mordecai Gorelik's Politicized Stage Designs
• A.Fletcher Choreographing America: 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 The America Play and James Scruggs's Disposable Men
• R.Vorlicky List of Contributors Index