Interrogating America through Theatre & Performance

This collection brings together a diverse group of essays dissecting American plays, movies, theatre productions, and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to Tennessee Williams to New York City vaudeville to consumerism exhibited on the stage to AIDS and post-9/11 America, "Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance" displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history.