History, they say, has a filthy tongue. In the case of colonial theatre in America, what we know about performance has come from the detractors of theatre and n

Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American e

In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural production in earl

The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what bec

We often know performance when we see it – but how should we investigate it? And how should we interpret what we find out? This book demonstrates why and how