Maria M. Delgado is Reader in Drama and Theatre Arts at Queen Mary, University of London. Caridad Svich is a member playwright of New Dramatists in New York

'Delgado and Svich have assembled a collection that will be of great use to and inspiration to academics and practitioners alike'Sean Carney, Modern Drama, Vol. XLVI No. 4 2003'This provocative collection of over 30 international contributions draws from an impressive and diverse group of artists, playwrights, and scholars to scrutinize contemporary theatre issues relating to identity, politics, technology, and economics.'Library Journal, 2003'An excellent collection'Plays International, May 2003'Entertaining and revealing'European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1Plays International 'Pick of the Month'.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsTheatre in crisis?: Performance manifestos for a new century - snapshots of a time - Maria M. Delgado and Caridad SvichTheatre in crisis? Living memory in an unstable time - Caridad SvichSome quick thoughts on theatre and its future - Oliver Mayer, Jorge Cortiñas, Neena Beber, Craig LucasCrisis as practice: Strategies, concepts and working decisionsThe comforts of crisis - Jim CarmodySome words about the theater today - Roberta LevitowSeeing through the national and global stereotypes: British theatre in crisis - Peter Lichtenfels and Lynette HunterThe state of reviewing today - Michael BillingtonCritical path - Claire H. MacDonaldThose who can do teach - Anna FurseHold your nerve: Notes for a young playwright - Phyllis NagyAgainst pessimism - Max Stafford-ClarkTheatre and identity: Negotiating doubt and passionMore enterprise in walking naked - Len BerkmanEducating the audience: Sharing the process - DD KuglerOne the death of theatre: A call to action - Tori Haring-SmithDancing with the dead man: Notes on a theatre for the future of Europe - John LondonBlack Theatre at the turn of the millenium - Kia CorthronThe crisis of label - Alice TuanNotes on opera at the end of the century - Ricardo SzwarcerWhat is to be done? : Theatre off the mapThe question of culture - Peter SellarsThe crisis of theater? The theatre of crisis! - Dragan KlaicScavenging for home (or how I learned to take refuge in live theater while worrying about the bomb) - Lisa D’AmourStealing kisses - Paul HeritageA theatre of monsters: Live performance in the age of digital media - Matthew CauseyThe moment of realised actuality - Andy LavenderLooking forward, looking back: Theatre and the spiritual, messages to the new worldWhen an angel goes through the stage - Jon FosseBad Glamour - Erik EhnHeat Bath - Matthew MaguireTheatre of the mind: A fugue in two parts - Shelley BercAn evangelical capitalist: Message in a bottle to the next millenium of Robinson Crusoes in proscenium - Ruth MargraffPoor Toms a cold: Reflections on the modern theater in crisis - Martin EpsteinThe theatre of good intentions - Mac WellmanLetter to a young practitioner - Goat IslandAfterword

Maria M. Delgado is Reader in Drama and Theatre Arts at Queen Mary, University of London. Caridad Svich is a member playwright of New Dramatists in New York

'Delgado and Svich have assembled a collection that will be of great use to and inspiration to academics and practitioners alike'Sean Carney, Modern Drama, Vol. XLVI No. 4 2003'This provocative collection of over 30 international contributions draws from an impressive and diverse group of artists, playwrights, and scholars to scrutinize contemporary theatre issues relating to identity, politics, technology, and economics.'Library Journal, 2003'An excellent collection'Plays International, May 2003'Entertaining and revealing'European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1Plays International 'Pick of the Month'.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsTheatre in crisis?: Performance manifestos for a new century - snapshots of a time - Maria M. Delgado and Caridad SvichTheatre in crisis? Living memory in an unstable time - Caridad SvichSome quick thoughts on theatre and its future - Oliver Mayer, Jorge Cortiñas, Neena Beber, Craig LucasCrisis as practice: Strategies, concepts and working decisionsThe comforts of crisis - Jim CarmodySome words about the theater today - Roberta LevitowSeeing through the national and global stereotypes: British theatre in crisis - Peter Lichtenfels and Lynette HunterThe state of reviewing today - Michael BillingtonCritical path - Claire H. MacDonaldThose who can do teach - Anna FurseHold your nerve: Notes for a young playwright - Phyllis NagyAgainst pessimism - Max Stafford-ClarkTheatre and identity: Negotiating doubt and passionMore enterprise in walking naked - Len BerkmanEducating the audience: Sharing the process - DD KuglerOne the death of theatre: A call to action - Tori Haring-SmithDancing with the dead man: Notes on a theatre for the future of Europe - John LondonBlack Theatre at the turn of the millenium - Kia CorthronThe crisis of label - Alice TuanNotes on opera at the end of the century - Ricardo SzwarcerWhat is to be done? : Theatre off the mapThe question of culture - Peter SellarsThe crisis of theater? The theatre of crisis! - Dragan KlaicScavenging for home (or how I learned to take refuge in live theater while worrying about the bomb) - Lisa D’AmourStealing kisses - Paul HeritageA theatre of monsters: Live performance in the age of digital media - Matthew CauseyThe moment of realised actuality - Andy LavenderLooking forward, looking back: Theatre and the spiritual, messages to the new worldWhen an angel goes through the stage - Jon FosseBad Glamour - Erik EhnHeat Bath - Matthew MaguireTheatre of the mind: A fugue in two parts - Shelley BercAn evangelical capitalist: Message in a bottle to the next millenium of Robinson Crusoes in proscenium - Ruth MargraffPoor Toms a cold: Reflections on the modern theater in crisis - Martin EpsteinThe theatre of good intentions - Mac WellmanLetter to a young practitioner - Goat IslandAfterword

Maria M. Delgado is Reader in Drama and Theatre Arts at Queen Mary, University of London. Caridad Svich is a member playwright of New Dramatists in New York

'Delgado and Svich have assembled a collection that will be of great use to and inspiration to academics and practitioners alike'Sean Carney, Modern Drama, Vol. XLVI No. 4 2003'This provocative collection of over 30 international contributions draws from an impressive and diverse group of artists, playwrights, and scholars to scrutinize contemporary theatre issues relating to identity, politics, technology, and economics.'Library Journal, 2003'An excellent collection'Plays International, May 2003'Entertaining and revealing'European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1Plays International 'Pick of the Month'.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsTheatre in crisis?: Performance manifestos for a new century - snapshots of a time - Maria M. Delgado and Caridad SvichTheatre in crisis? Living memory in an unstable time - Caridad SvichSome quick thoughts on theatre and its future - Oliver Mayer, Jorge Cortiñas, Neena Beber, Craig LucasCrisis as practice: Strategies, concepts and working decisionsThe comforts of crisis - Jim CarmodySome words about the theater today - Roberta LevitowSeeing through the national and global stereotypes: British theatre in crisis - Peter Lichtenfels and Lynette HunterThe state of reviewing today - Michael BillingtonCritical path - Claire H. MacDonaldThose who can do teach - Anna FurseHold your nerve: Notes for a young playwright - Phyllis NagyAgainst pessimism - Max Stafford-ClarkTheatre and identity: Negotiating doubt and passionMore enterprise in walking naked - Len BerkmanEducating the audience: Sharing the process - DD KuglerOne the death of theatre: A call to action - Tori Haring-SmithDancing with the dead man: Notes on a theatre for the future of Europe - John LondonBlack Theatre at the turn of the millenium - Kia CorthronThe crisis of label - Alice TuanNotes on opera at the end of the century - Ricardo SzwarcerWhat is to be done? : Theatre off the mapThe question of culture - Peter SellarsThe crisis of theater? The theatre of crisis! - Dragan KlaicScavenging for home (or how I learned to take refuge in live theater while worrying about the bomb) - Lisa D’AmourStealing kisses - Paul HeritageA theatre of monsters: Live performance in the age of digital media - Matthew CauseyThe moment of realised actuality - Andy LavenderLooking forward, looking back: Theatre and the spiritual, messages to the new worldWhen an angel goes through the stage - Jon FosseBad Glamour - Erik EhnHeat Bath - Matthew MaguireTheatre of the mind: A fugue in two parts - Shelley BercAn evangelical capitalist: Message in a bottle to the next millenium of Robinson Crusoes in proscenium - Ruth MargraffPoor Toms a cold: Reflections on the modern theater in crisis - Martin EpsteinThe theatre of good intentions - Mac WellmanLetter to a young practitioner - Goat IslandAfterword