The American stage: writing on theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner

From Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. / Washington Irving

Prologue for the Opening of the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia / Charles Sprague

from History of the American Theatre / William Dunlap

from Domestic Manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope

Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples / Alexis de Tocqueville

On Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion / Edgar Allan Poe

The Gladiator-Mr. Forrest-Acting ; Miserable State of the Stage ; The Old Bowery / Walt Whitman

The Astor Place Riot / Philip Hone

from Mimic Life; or, Before and Behind the Curtain / Anna Cora Mowatt

The Menken ; The Model Artists ; The Minstrel Show / Mark Twain

from The Journals / Charles King Newcomb

About Nudity in Theatres / Olive Logan

from The Genial Showman: The Church in the Theatre and the Theatre in the Church / Edward P. Hingston

Notes on the Theatres ; from A Small Boy and Others / Henry James

Clara Morris / Alan Dale

The Art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet / William Winter

Uncle Tom's Cabin ; Antony and Cleopatra (1) ; Antony and Cleopatra (2) / Willa Cather

from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Theatres, Actors and Audience / Hutchins Hapgood

Melodrama / Rollin Lynde Hartt

My Most Successful Play / Lottie Blair Parker

Stage Struck / Channing Pollock

Some American Dramatic Material ; Hamlet / Stark Young

"The Illusion of the First Time" in Drama / William Gillette

Mr. James Joyce and the Modern Stage / Ezra Pound

Mrs. Fiske on Ibsen the Popular / Alexander Woollcott

Frank Wedekind / James G. Huneker

The Painter and the Stage / Lee Simonson

Mimi Aguglia as Salome / Carl Van Vechten

The Jest / Dorothy Parker

Mr. Belasco Explains ; Susan Glaspell / Ludwig Lewisohn

Abie's Irish Rose Review and Bulletins / Robert Benchley

I Gaspiri-"The Upholsterers": A Drama in Three Acts / Ring Lardner

The Dæmonic in the American Theatre / Gilbert Seldes

Burlesque Shows / Edmund Wilson

The Negro and the American Stage / Alain Locke

the old trouper / Don Marquis

The Audience Emotion ; On Vaudeville ; Eugene O"Neill / George Jean Nathan

The Days of Jig Cook ; Alla Nazimova / Djuna Barnes

James A. and Katharine Herne / Hamlin Garland

Cain's Warehouse / Sidney Skolsky

Trouble with the Angels / Langston Hughes

from Of Time and the River / Thomas Wolfe

Waiting for Santy / S. J. Perelman

Our Town ; Standards in Drama Criticism / Brooks Atkinson

The Man Who Came to Dinner with George Kaufman Directing / Morton Eustis

from Arena / Hallie Flanagan

Some Thoughts on Playwriting / Thornton Wilder

Audience Tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea / Elia Kazan

A Streetcar Called Success / Mary McCarthy

Tennessee Williams ; The Famous "Method" ; from The Theatre of the Thirties / Harold Clurman

Even as You and I / John Mason Brown

Terry Helburn / Frances Parkinson Keyes

Folklore on Forty-Seventh Street ; from Bentley on Brecht / Eric Bentley

The American Theater / Arthur Miller

The Life and Death of Vaudeville / Fred Allen

Barns / Walter Kerr

Author and Director: A Delicate Situation / Tennessee Williams

Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet ; The Commercialites ; Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House / Gore Vidal

"Me tink me hear sounds in de night" / Lorraine Hansberry

Which Theater Is the Absurd One? / Edward Albee

The Becks' Living Theatre / Charles L. Mee, Jr.

Boredom in the Theatre / John Simon

El Teatro Campesino / Luis Valdéz

Marat/Sade/Artaud / Susan Sontag

A Short Statement on Street Theatre / Ed Bullins

Notes on the New Theater / Elizabeth Hardwick

from The Season / William Goldman

from Notes on a Cowardly Lion / John Lahr

from Run-Through: A Memoir / John Houseman

from A Personal History of the American Theatre / Spalding Gray

The Death of Broadway / Thomas M. Disch

Gay Theatre / Charles Ludlam

"Dolly" Goes Away / Frank Rich

Heidi Chronicled / Wendy Wasserstein

The Chitlin Circuit / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Problem Play / David Mamet

from A Director Prepares: Terror / Anne Bogart

Kushner on Miller / Tony Kushner.