Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009

Julia Listengarten is Professor of Theatre and Coordinator of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida, USA. She is a scholar, theatre director, dramaturg, and translator. She is the author of Russian Tragifarce: Its Cultural and Political Roots (2000) and co-editor of Theater of the Avant-Garde: 1950-2000 (2011) and Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice (2012).Cindy Rosenthal is Professor of Drama and Dance at Hofstra University, New York, USA. She is co-editor of Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theatres and their Legacies (2006), Living on the Street: Plays of the Living Theatre 1989-92 (2008) and The Rise of Performance Studies: Re-thinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum (2011).Dorothy Chansky is Associate Professor at Texas Tech University, USA.Wendy Arons is Associate Professor at Carnegie Melon University, USA.Scott Cummings is Department Chair and Associate Professor at Boston College, USA.

• List of Tables and BoxesAcknowledgementsBiographical Note and Notes on ContributorsGeneral Preface: Brenda Murphy and Julia Listengarten1. Introduction: Living in the 2000s by Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, USA.2. Theatre in the 2000s by Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, USA.3. Charles Mee by Scott T. Cummings, Boston College, USA.4. Lynn Nottage by by Cindy Rosenthal, Hofstra University, USA.5. Theresa Rebeck by by Dorothy Chansky, Texas Tech University, USA.6. Sarah Ruhl by Wendy Arons, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.Afterword by by Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, USA.DocumentsNotesBibliographyIndex