“People are products of the time in which they came of age. I know that to be true. In my plays these women are very much of their times.” — Wendy Wasserstein.
Most scholarship and critical studies on the dramatic works of Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006), during her lifetime and after her untimely death at the age of 55, have been largely concerned with her representation of [ . . . ]
In 1879, nineteen-year-old Pauline Hopkins’s musical slave drama, The Underground Railroad, flopped. Reviews panned the production, suggesting the plagiaristic knock-off of Joseph […]
In May 2011, Marc Masterson departed Actors Theatre of Louisville for a similar position as the artistic director of South Coast Repertory […]
Alan Schneider, one of the most important American directors of the twentieth century, was know for being a “playwright’s director.” He believed […]
As a black blackface entertainer and influential international star, Bert Williams has held a continuous fascination for theatre historians, in large part […]
