Introduction: The changing perceptions of American drama / David Krasner
American drama, 1900-1915 / Mark Evans Bryan
Ethnic theatre in America / Rachel Shteir
Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: staging feminism and modernism, 1915-1941 / J. Ellen Gainor, Jerry Dickey
American experimentalism, American expressionism, and early O'Neill / Deanna M. Toten Beard
Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s / Felicia Hardison Londré
Playwrights and plays of the Harlem Renaissance / Annemarie Bean
Reading across the 1930s / Anne Fletcher
Famous unknowns: the dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein / Sarah Bay-Cheng
Eugene O'Neill: American drama and American modernism / David Krasner
Fissures beneath the surface: drama in the 1940s and 1950s / Thomas P. Adler
Tennessee Williams / Brenda A. Murphy
Expressing and exploring faith: religious drama in America / Peter Civetta
The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller / Murray Biggs
Drama of the 1960s / Christopher Olsen
Fifteen-love, thirty-love: Edward Albee / Steven Price
The drama of the Black Arts Movement / Mike Sell
Sam Shepard and the American sunset: enchantment of the mythic West / Leslie A. Wade
Staging the binary: Asian American theatre in the late twentieth century / Daphne Lei
August Wilson / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
Native American drama / Ann Haugo
John Guare and the popular culture hype of celebrity status / Gene A. Plunka
Writing beyond borders: a survey of US Latina/o drama / Tiffany Ana Lopez
"Off the porch and into the scene": southern women playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin / Linda Rohrer Paige
David Mamet: America on the American stage / Janet V. Haedicke
1970-1990: disillusionment, identity, and discovery / Mark Fearnow
Maria Irene Fornes: acts of translation / Andrew Sofer
From eccentricity to endurance: Jewish comedy and the art of affirmation / Julia Listengarten
Repercussions and remainders in the plays of Paula Vogel: an essay in five moments / Ann Pellegrini
Lesbian and gay drama / Jill Dolan
American drama of the 1990s on tand off-broadway / June Schleuter
Solo performance drama: the self as other? / Stephen J. Bottoms
Experimental drama at the end of the century / Ehren Fordyce.