Index
4H Club
111, 112, 113–114
The Abdication
121
Adjmi, David
46–47, 50, 63–65, 68
Adorno, Theodore
6, 30–32, 44
Aeschylus
48
Albee, Frances Cotter
126–127
Albee, Reed
126
Aldredge, Theoni V.
135
Alley Theatre (Houston)
191, 193, 200
All Over
7, 168, 175–178, 180, 191, 192
Allen, Covington “Covey”
131
American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco)
189–190, 200
The American Dream
2, 5, 8, 16, 28n, 29, 41–42, 88, 98, 134, 165, 166, 167, 169–170, 174, 190
And Things That Go Bump in the Night (McNally)
159–160, 167
Archuleta, Felipe
136
Arena Stage (D.C.)
196–197
Aristotle
16, 21, 26
Artaud, Antonin
42
Armstrong, Zebedee (Z. B.)
136
Arnone, John
135
Asch, Sholem
144
At Home at the Zoo
116
August: Osage County (Letts)
198
Baitz, Jon Robin
121
Balaban, Bob
196
The Bald Soprano (Ionesco)
2, 169
Ball, William
200
The Ballad of the Sad Café
5, 166
Balls (Foster)
125
Balm in Gilead (Wilson)
124, 129
Bancroft, Anne
194
Banes, Sally
105n, 107
The Baptism (Baraka)
142, 144, 148–50
Baraka, Amiri
1, 6, 8, 87–101, 121, 142, 144, 148–150
Barr, Richard
7, 8, 87–88, 99, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 121, 150, 158, 166, 167
Barry, Philip
169, 171
Beat Generation
89
Beautiful Child (Silver)
164, 173–175, 184
Beckett, Samuel
2, 3, 4, 19n, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 112, 128, 130, 194, 198
The Bed (Heide)
142, 144, 154–156
Bennett, Michael Y.
7, 77
Berezin, Tanya
121
Berger, Sydney
137
Berlin, Irving
2, 3
Bernstein, Robin
142
Bianchini, Natka
8
The Bible see (Holy Bible)
Bigsby, Christopher
4
Black Arts
94, 97–98
Bloom, Harold
1, 2
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Baraka)
87
Book of Days (Wilson)
133
Bottoms, Stephen
2, 5, 105, 106, 107n, 108, 110, 111, 154, 166
Bourdet, Édouard
144
Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
22, 28n, 134
The Boys in the Band (Crowley)
7, 142, 144, 156–160, 167
Brecht, Bertolt
19n, 31–37
Broder, Lesley
7
Brown, Jim
133
Brown LoVerne
131
Butler, David
136
Butterflies Are Free (Gershe)
123
Caffe Cino
7, 8, 104, 105, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 145, 148, 151, 152, 154, 166
Camus, Albert
4
The Captive (Bourdet)
144
Catholic Church
59
Chekhov, Anton
2, 3, 30–32, 127, 129
Cherry Lane Theatre
87–88, 99
Christ
49, 53, 58–59, 61
Churchill, Caryl
63,68
Cino, Joe
104, 126, 145
Citkowitz, Israel
133
The Club (Merriam)
121
Clum, John M.
1–9, 147n, 156, 159, 160, 164–185
Conerico Was Here to Stay (Gagliano)
125
Coon, Carrie
197, 202
Copland, Aaron
132
Counting the Ways
28n, 42
Coward, Noël
3
Crespy, David A.
8, 104n, 105n, 108n, 109n, 111n, 112, 158, 165
Crowley, Mart
7, 142, 144, 156–160, 167
Davis, Vestie
136
Day, Johanna
194
The Death of Bessie Smith
87–88, 91–92, 96, 98–99
The Death of Malcolm X (Baraka)
87–88, 97–99
A Delicate Balance
5, 38–39, 47–48, 63, 126, 135, 168, 169, 170, 171, 178, 190, 195
Demastes, William
82, 84
Diamond, David
132
Dirks, Madison
196, 197
Do Not Pass Go (Nolte)
125
Dog (Shepard)
107, 113
The Drag (West)
144
Dunn, Elaine
127
Durang, Christopher
7, 169
Dutchman (Baraka)
6, 8, 87–93, 99–100, 150
Eddy, Augustus (Gus)
131
Enriquez, Colin
150
Esbjornson, David
191
Everything in the Garden
168
The Evildoers (Adjmi)
50, 63–64
Fam and Yam
18–19, 87–88, 96
Far Away (Churchill)
63, 68–70
Farrand, Noel
132–133
Fifth of July (Wilson)
128
Finding the Sun
5, 158, 166
Flanagan, William
4, 14–16, 133
Foster, Paul
125
Fragments
28n
Funnyhouse of a Negro (Kennedy)
152
Gagliano, Frank
125
Genet, Jean
130
Ginsberg, Allen
89
Glaspell, Susan
18n
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
5, 28n, 40–41, 47, 59, 115, 135, 166, 168, 173, 190, 192, 193, 200
God of Vengeance (Asch)
144
Good Night, I Love You (Hoffman)
142, 144, 152–154
Greenwood, Jane
135
Guare, John
7, 77–86, 106, 110, 111, 121, 122, 143
Gurney, A. R.
121
Gussow, Mel
2, 8, 88, 92, 106, 106n, 112n, 126
Hagen, Uta
199
The Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden (Wilder)
23, 29
Hartford Stage
193–194
Harvey, Bessie
136
Hassan, Ihab H.
1, 2
Havel, Vaclav
117
Hawk Moon (Shepard)
117
Hawkins, William
136
The Haunted Host (Patrick)
142, 144, 145–148
Healey, Ann Marie
46–47, 63, 67–69
Heide Robert
142, 143, 144, 154–156, 160, 166
Hoffman, William M.
142, 144, 152–154, 166
The Holy Bible
46–47, 49–55 (passim), 55n, 56n, 57n, 57–65, 60n, 64n, 66, 70, 70n
The Homecoming (Pinter)
48, 78–79
Home Free (Wilson)
125
Homelife
190, 194–195
Horovitz, Israel
6, 150
Hunter, Clementine
130, 136
Hunting the Jingo Bird (Pressman)
125
Hwang, David Henry
46, 63, 65–68
Icarus’ Mother (Shepard)
112, 114
The Iceman Cometh (O’Neill)
3, 4
The Indian Wants the Bronx (Horowitz)
6
Inge, William
13n, 19 96, 165
Innaurato, Albert
121
Ionesco, Eugene
2, 19n, 129, 132
Irwin, Bill
192
Jacker, Corinne
121
Jones, Hettie (née Cohen)
89, 94–95
Katselas, Milton
123
Kaufmann, George, and Hart, Moss
169
Kauffman, Stanley
145n
Kennedy, Adrienne
121, 125, 150, 152
Kern, Douglas
1, 8
Kerouac, Jack
89
King, Jr., Martin Luther
97–99
King Lear (Shakespeare)
49
Kolin, Philip C.
149
Konkle, Lincoln
6, 80–81
Kopit, Arthur
121
Koutoukas, H. M.
160
Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett)
128, 190
Krasner, David
78–79
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
2, 169
The Lady from Dubuque
8, 28n, 29, 39–40, 121
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club
105, 110, 111, 112, 113
Lavey, Martha
196
Laying an Egg
201
Leasure, T. Ross
179
Lemon Sky (Wilson)
126
Lenhard, Walt E.
127
Lenhard, Violetta Tate
127
Leonard, Jr., Jim
121
The Lesson (Ionesco)
132
A Lesson in Dead Language (Kennedy)
125
Letts, Tracy
196, 197–199
Lewis, Edward
133
Lindfors, Viveca
123
Log Cabin (Harrison)
198n
The Long Christmas Dinner (Wilder)
14, 23
Lovey (Morgenstern)
125
Lucas, Craig
121
The Lyons (Silver)
7, 164, 168, 175, 178–184
The MacDowell Colony
13–16, 20
The Madness of Lady Bright (Wilson)
129, 142, 144, 151–152
Malcolm
5
The Man Who Had Three Arms
28n
Mann, Emily
148, 189, 192
Marcia, David
6
Marie Antoinette (Adjmi)
47, 63–65, 68
Mason, Marshall W.
121
Mastrosimone, William
121
The Matchmaker (Wilder)
21, 24, 28
McCarter Theatre
13, 19–21, 24, 27
McCullers, Carson
5
McKinnon, Pam
8, 189–203
McNally, Terrence
7, 121, 122, 159–160, 167
Me, Myself and I
6, 13, 19n, 20–23, 27–29, 43–44, 135
Merriam, Eve
121
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
25
Miller, Arthur
18n
Modernism
78–79
Morgenstern, Joseph
125
Morton, Amy
196–199
The Mound Builders (Wilson)
134
Night of the Iguana (Williams)
48
No Trespassing (Wilson)
122–123
Nolte, Charles
125
Norman, Marsha
121
Occupant
4, 190, 194
Odets, Clifford
87–88, 95
O’Neill, Eugene
18, 18n, 19n, 29
Osgood, Lawrence
125
O’Neill, Eugene
3
Orton, Joe
7, 167, 169
Orpheus Descending (Williams)
166
Our Town (Wilder)
13, 17–22, 24, 27–29
Page, Anthony
192, 194
Patrick, Robert
142, 143, 144, 145, 148, 166
Payne, Miles
131
Perloff, Carey
190
Philadelphia Theatre Company
189, 190–191
Picnic (Inge)
166
Pigeons (Osgood)
125
Pinter, Harold
48, 78–79
Pirandello, Luigi
2, 3, 19n
The Play About the Baby
13, 28n, 29, 42–43, 135, 137, 190–191, 193, 200
Playwrights Horizons (New York)
189–190, 198, 203
The Playwrights Unit (AlBarWild Playwrights Unit)
7, 8, 103–117, 150, 156, 158
The Pleasure Man (West)
144n
Postmodernism
78–79, 80–82
“Preface to Three Plays” (Wilder)
21
Pressman, Kenneth
125
Pterodactyls (Silver)
164, 168, 171–173
Pullman Car Hiawatha (Wilder)
4, 29
Purdy, James
5
Reed, Ernest (“Popeye”)
136
Reisner, Philipp
6
“The Revolutionary Theatre” (Baraka)
93
Rich Relations (Hwang)
63, 65–67
Richards, Jeffrey
198
Rice, Elmer
18
Rimers of Eldritch (Wilson)
119, 124, 134
Ritman, William
121, 135
Rorem, Ned
133
Rose, Tanya Newton
131
Rosenthal, Laurence
133
Roth, Philip
145n
Roudané, Matthew
4, 143
Sabina
25, 26, 28
The Sandbox
2, 4, 5, 13, 16, 28n, 29, 41–42, 134, 142, 148–150, 165
The Sand Castle (Wilson)
131, 134
Savran, David
170
Schildcrout, Jordan
Schneider, Alan
8, 121, 135, 190, 198
Seascape
28n, 135, 190, 199
Serenading Louie (Wilson)
134
Shakespeare, William
21, 24, 25
Shepard, Sam
6, 8, 36n. 20, 103–117, 121, 122, 124, 125
Silone, Ignazio
4
Silvay, Lucy
154n
Silver, Nicky
7, 165–184
Sinfield, Alan
157
The Skin of Our Teeth (Wilder)
17, 18, 21, 24–29
Sinfield, Alan
165
Six Degrees of Separation (Guare)
7, 83–86
The Slave (Baraka)
87–88, 93–97
Smith, Bessie
91–92, 99
Smith, Molly
196–197
Smith, Russell
133
So Long at the Fair (L. Wilson)
132
“Some Thoughts on Playwriting” (Wilder)
21
Starkweather, David
160
Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago)
196–197
Stewart, Ellen
112, 126
A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams)
78–80, 166
Stretching My Mind
2, 3, 5
Strouse, Charles
133
Stunning (Adjmi)
50
Suddenly Last Summer (Williams)
3, 4
Sweet, Jeffrey
138
Sweet Bird of Youth (Williams)
166
Sympathetic Magic (Wilson)
134, 137
Talley’s Folly (Wilson)
121
Taylor, Elizabeth
199
Ter-Arutunian, Rouben
135
Terry, Megan
121, 122, 124
Theatre of the Absurd
98
Theobald, John
131
Thirkield, Rob
121
This Is the Rill Speaking (Wilson)
124, 134
Thomas, Dylan
134
Thomas, Jonathan
4, 137–138
Three Little Pigs (Disney)
53, 55
Three Tall Women
5, 28n, 115, 116, 127, 167
Tillstrom, Burr
2
Tiny Alice
4, 28n, 46, 59n, 60n, 129, 135, 150–151, 159, 167, 170, 172, 199–200
Treadwell, Sophie
18
True West (Shepard)
6
Turner, Katherine
192
Under Milkwood (Thomas)
134
Up to Thursday (Shepard)
111, 112, 113
Vanden Heuvel, Mike
82,84
Vienna’s English Theatre
200
The Village Voice
114
Voelpel, Fred
135
Vogel, Paula
121
West, Mae
144
What We Once Felt (Healey)
47, 63, 67–70
“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” (Frank E. Churchill, Ann Ronell)
53
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4, 6, 7, 8, 15, 36–37, 46, 47, 50–59, 60n, 63, 70, 80–82, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 114, 129, 135, 142, 143, 145–147, 150, 153–154, 156–157, 167, 168, 169, 170, 174, 179, 190, 191, 192, 195, 196–199, 201–202
Wilder, Clinton
88, 99, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 121, 150
Wilder, Thornton
6, 13–23, 25, 27–29, 129
Williams, Samm-Art
121
Williams, Tennessee
3, 7, 18, 19, 48, 78–80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 129, 132, 165
Wilson, Doric
160
Wilson, Lanford
8, 111, 112, 119–140, 142, 144, 151–152
Wilson, Michael
195
Wilson, Ralph
126
Wolff, Ruth
121
Wright, Mark,
121
X, Malcolm
87–88, 91–92, 97–99
Yoakum, Joseph
136
The Zoo Story
4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 18n, 42–43, 46–50, 60n, 63, 80, 87–91, 99, 103, 105, 106, 107, 112, 113, 116, 123, 128, 142, 143, 150, 151–152, 154–156, 165, 166, 167, 180–184, 190, 192–195