Introduction : America defined and refined / William W. Demastes
The savage other : "Indianizing" and performance in nineteenth-century American culture / Rosemarie K. Bank
Defining faith : theatrical reactions to pro-slavery Christianity in antebellum America / Amy E. Hughes
Negotiating a new identity : Irish Americans and the variety theatre in the 1860s / Susan Kattwinkel
Drama and cultural pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell's Inheritors / Noelia Hernando-Real
Beneath the horizon : pipe dreams, identity, and capital in Eugene O'Neill's first Broadway play / Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
Vernacularizing Brecht : the political theatre of the New Deal / Ilka Saal
Let freedom ring : Mordecai Gorelik's politicized stage designs / Anne Fletcher
Choreographing America : redefining American ballet in the age of consensus / Andrea Harris
Arthur Miller : in memoriam / Christopher Bigsby
Menageries, melting pots, movies : Tennessee on America / Janet V. Haedicke
Facts on trial : documentary theatre and Zoot suit / Jacqueline O'Connor
"The ground on which I stand is I, too, am America" : African American cycle dramatists, dramas, and the voice of inclusion / Ladrica Menson-Furr
My Uncle Sam in consumer society : Len Jenkin and the death of Death of a salesman / Steve Feffer
From paradise to parasite : information theory, noise, and disequilibrium in John Guare's Six degrees of separation / Mike Vanden Heuvel
Not "very Steven Spielberg"? Angels in America on film / Deborah R. Geis
Reflections in a pool : Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and post-9/11 New York City / Andrea Nouryeh
An American echo : Suzan-Lori Parks's The America play and James Scruggs's Disposable man / Robert Vorlicky.