Alisa Solomon is Professor of English/Journalism at Baruch College-City University of New York, and of English and Theater at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she also serves as executive director for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies.Framji Minwalla is Assistant Professor of Drama at Dartmouth College. He is currently working on a book about the pedagogy of theater history.

"A rich and varied collection, featuring the voices both of academics and theatre practitioners." (American Theatre) "The panel discussions...contributes a warm, witty and deliciously rhetorical piece." (Lambda Book Report) "This stimulating collection of essays critically examines and celebrates what, for centuries, many have deeply feared and many others have known and cherished to be true-that theatre is, indeed, the queerest art. The special ephermerality and perilousness of queer existence on- and offstage make this volume's excellently rendered project of documentation through performance, writing, and publication not only admirable and necessary but urgent." (The Drama Review) "Eclectic array of essays." (Theater Journal)

• 1 Great Sparkles of Lust: Homophobia and the Antitheatrical Tradition 2 The Queer Root of Theater 3 "Porno-Tropics": Some Thoughts on Shakespeare, Colonialism, and Sexuality 4 Setting the Stage behind the Seen: Performing Lesbian History 5 "The Man I Love": The Erotics of Friendship in Restoration Theater 6 "Be True to Yearning": Notes on the Pioneers of Queer Theater 7 From the Invisible to the Ridiculous: The Emergence of an Out Theater Aesthetic 8 Queer Theater and the Disarticulation of Identity 9 Out across America: Playing from P.S. 122 to Peoria 10 "Being" a Lesbian: Apple Island and the Performance of Community 11 "Preaching to the Converted" 12 Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Politizado 13 When We Were Warriors 14 The Kids Stay in the Picture, or, Toward a New Queer Theater 15 Goodnight Irene: An Endnote

Alisa Solomon is Professor of English/Journalism at Baruch College-City University of New York, and of English and Theater at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she also serves as executive director for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies.Framji Minwalla is Assistant Professor of Drama at Dartmouth College. He is currently working on a book about the pedagogy of theater history.

"A rich and varied collection, featuring the voices both of academics and theatre practitioners." (American Theatre) "The panel discussions...contributes a warm, witty and deliciously rhetorical piece." (Lambda Book Report) "This stimulating collection of essays critically examines and celebrates what, for centuries, many have deeply feared and many others have known and cherished to be true-that theatre is, indeed, the queerest art. The special ephermerality and perilousness of queer existence on- and offstage make this volume's excellently rendered project of documentation through performance, writing, and publication not only admirable and necessary but urgent." (The Drama Review) "Eclectic array of essays." (Theater Journal)

• 1 Great Sparkles of Lust: Homophobia and the Antitheatrical Tradition 2 The Queer Root of Theater 3 "Porno-Tropics": Some Thoughts on Shakespeare, Colonialism, and Sexuality 4 Setting the Stage behind the Seen: Performing Lesbian History 5 "The Man I Love": The Erotics of Friendship in Restoration Theater 6 "Be True to Yearning": Notes on the Pioneers of Queer Theater 7 From the Invisible to the Ridiculous: The Emergence of an Out Theater Aesthetic 8 Queer Theater and the Disarticulation of Identity 9 Out across America: Playing from P.S. 122 to Peoria 10 "Being" a Lesbian: Apple Island and the Performance of Community 11 "Preaching to the Converted" 12 Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Politizado 13 When We Were Warriors 14 The Kids Stay in the Picture, or, Toward a New Queer Theater 15 Goodnight Irene: An Endnote