The Cambridge History of American Theatre

by Edited by Don B. Wilmeth , Christopher Bigsby

• ISBN13: 9780521679855
• ISBN10: 0521679850
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as well as regional theater across the country. Contributors also analyze new directions in theater design, directing, and acting, as well as key plays and playwrights through the 1990s.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Contributors	xi
Preface and acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(20)
CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY
Timeline: Post-World War II to 1998	21	(66)
COMPILED BY DON B. WILMETH WITH JONATHAN CURLEY
1 American Theatre in Context: 1945—Present	87	(76)
ARNOLD ARONSON
2 A Changing Theatre: Broadway to the Regions	163	(131)
Broadway	163	(33)
LAURENCE MASLON
Off- and Off-Off Broadway	196	(28)
MEL GUSSOW
Regional/Resident Theatre	224	(25)
MARTHA LOMONACO
Alternative Theatre	249	(45)
MARVIN CARLSON
3 The Plays and Playwrights	294	(125)
Plays and Playwrights: 1945-1970	294	(37)
JUNE SCHLUETER
Plays and Playwrights Since 1970	331	(88)
MATTHEW ROUDANÉ
4 Musical Theatre Since World War II	419	(47)
JOHN DEGEN
5 Directors and Direction	466	(24)
SAMUEL L. LEITER
6 Actors and Acting	490	(24)
FOSTER HIRSCH
7 American Theatre Design Since 1945	514	(20)
RONN SMITH
Bibliography	534	(20)
Index	554