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Introduction / Arthur Gewirtz, James J. Kolb
Part I: Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices
Searching for "the big American play": The theatre guild produces John Howard Lawson's Processional / Beverle Bloch
The idiosyncratic theatre of John Howard Lawson / John D. Shout
Glitzing the proletariat: John Howard Lawson's plays of the 1920s / Michael C. O'Neill
Direction by design(er): Robert Edmond Jones and the new Provincetown players / Jane T. Peterson
Glitter, glitz, and race: The production of Harlem / Freda Scott Giles
Disparate voices: African American theatre critics of the 1920s / Freda Scott Giles
Garland Anderson and appearances: The playwright and his play / Alan Kreizenbeck
The first serious dramas on Broadway by African American playwrights / Jeanne-Marie A. Miller
Theatre and community: The significance of Howard University's 1920s drama program / Scott Zaluda
"To doubt is fatal": Eva Le Gallienne and the civic repertory theatre, 1926-1932 / Estelle Aden
Sophie Treadwell's play Machinal: Strategies of reception and interpretation / Kornelia Tancheva
Sophie Treadwell's summer with Boleslavsky and lectures for the American Laboratory Theatre / Jerry Dickey
On "The Verge" of a new form: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Susan Glaspell's experiments in The Verge / Steven Frank
They knew what they wanted: American theatre's use of nonverbal communication codes to marginalize non-native characters in the 1920s / Beverly Bronson Smith
The Poet Lore plays: A new Chinese voice ... but how new? / Dave Williams
Part II: Theatre and set design
Against the tide: Mordecai Gorelik and the New York Theatre of the 1920s - processional, Nirvana, the moon is a gong, and loudspeaker / Anne Fletcher
"Another revolution to be heard from": Jane Heap and the International Theatre Exposition of 1926 / John Bell
Architecture for the twentieth century: Imagining the theatre in the 1920s / William F. Condee.
Part I: Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices
Searching for "the big American play": The theatre guild produces John Howard Lawson's Processional / Beverle Bloch
The idiosyncratic theatre of John Howard Lawson / John D. Shout
Glitzing the proletariat: John Howard Lawson's plays of the 1920s / Michael C. O'Neill
Direction by design(er): Robert Edmond Jones and the new Provincetown players / Jane T. Peterson
Glitter, glitz, and race: The production of Harlem / Freda Scott Giles
Disparate voices: African American theatre critics of the 1920s / Freda Scott Giles
Garland Anderson and appearances: The playwright and his play / Alan Kreizenbeck
The first serious dramas on Broadway by African American playwrights / Jeanne-Marie A. Miller
Theatre and community: The significance of Howard University's 1920s drama program / Scott Zaluda
"To doubt is fatal": Eva Le Gallienne and the civic repertory theatre, 1926-1932 / Estelle Aden
Sophie Treadwell's play Machinal: Strategies of reception and interpretation / Kornelia Tancheva
Sophie Treadwell's summer with Boleslavsky and lectures for the American Laboratory Theatre / Jerry Dickey
On "The Verge" of a new form: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Susan Glaspell's experiments in The Verge / Steven Frank
They knew what they wanted: American theatre's use of nonverbal communication codes to marginalize non-native characters in the 1920s / Beverly Bronson Smith
The Poet Lore plays: A new Chinese voice ... but how new? / Dave Williams
Part II: Theatre and set design
Against the tide: Mordecai Gorelik and the New York Theatre of the 1920s - processional, Nirvana, the moon is a gong, and loudspeaker / Anne Fletcher
"Another revolution to be heard from": Jane Heap and the International Theatre Exposition of 1926 / John Bell
Architecture for the twentieth century: Imagining the theatre in the 1920s / William F. Condee.