Introduction / Julie Listengarten -- Part I: Commercial and mainstream theatre. Broadway post-1945 to 1960 : shifting perspectives / Susan C.W. Abbotson ; Bridging the gap : Broadway and the experimental from the 1960s to 2020 / Cindy Rosenthal ; What's inside? Collaborative relationships at the heart of the American musical / Laura MacDonald ; Shaping Broadway and off-Broadway plays through collaborative playwrights, directors, designers, and companies / Jessica Silsby Brater -- Part II: Regional theatre movement. Money matters : dismantling the narrative of the rise of regional theatre / Elizabeth A. Osborne ; When and where they enter : black and brown voices in American theatres / Faedra Chatard Carpenter ; El jardin mágico : commissions, collaboration, and new play development in American regional theatre / David A. Crespy -- Part III: Experimental theatre and other forms of entertainment. Experimental collectives of the 1960s and their legacies / Timothy Youker ; Post-avant-garde theatre / Arnold Aronson ; Populist provocations and commercial cavalcades : popular entertainment and the rise of mass mediated performance / Chase Bringardner.
Summary:
"Despite global recognition of American drama afforded by Eugene O'Neill's 1936 Nobel Prize, it would not be until after World War II that American theatre took flight, came into its own, and developed its own distinctive identity. These post-war years through to 1960 can be viewed as a Golden Age for American drama as new plays, new staging, and new acting styles emerged that could be viewed as distinctly American, and would become increasingly influential, worldwide"-- Provided by publisher.
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