- Additional Authors
- Description
- xx, 249 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Whether creating Broadway musicals, experimental dramas or outrageous comedies, the performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers profiled in this collection have contributed to the representation of LGBTQ lives and culture in a variety of theatrical venues, both within the queer community and across the US theatrical landscape. Moving from the era of the Stonewall Riots to today, notable scholars in the field bring a wide variety of queer theatre artists into conversation with each other, exploring connections and differences in race, gender, physical ability, national origin, class, generation, aesthetic modes, and political goals, creating a diverse and inclusive study of 50 years of queer theatre. For readers seeking an introduction to or a deeper understanding of LGBTQ theatre, this volume offers thought-provoking analyses of theatre-makers both celebrated and lesser-known, mainstream and subversive, canonical and new"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge key guides
- Uniform Title
- Routledge key guides.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references
- Contents
- Reza Abdoh / Joseph Cermatori -- Luis Alfaro / Patricia Ybarra -- Kate Bornstein / Rye Gentleman -- Sharon Bridgforth / T. Chester -- Charles Busch / Sean F. Edgecomb -- Jane Chambers / Sara Warner -- Ellie Covan / Jeff McMahon -- Will Davis / Joshua Bastian Cole -- Ty Defoe / Courtney Elkin Mohler -- Snehal Desai / Dan Bacalzo -- Harvey Fierstein / Jordan Schildcrout -- William Finn / Ryan Donovan -- The Five Lesbian Brothers : Moe Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron / Lisa Sloan -- María Irene Fornés / Gwendolyn Alker -- John Glines / Jordan Schildcrout -- David Greenspan / Nick Salvato -- Jeremy O. Harris / David Román -- Rachel Hauck / Stacy Wolf -- Chisa Hutchinson / La Donna L. Forsgren -- Michael R. Jackson / Aviva Helena Neff -- Bill T. Jones / Ariel Nereson -- Moisés Kaufman / Bess Rowen -- Tony Kushner / Virginia Anderson -- Tina Landau / David Román -- Nathan Lane / James F. Wilson -- Haruna Lee / Jessica Del Vecchio -- Joan Lipkin / Gad Guterman -- Charles Ludlum / Joe E. Jeffreys -- Taylor Mac / Sean F. Edgecomb -- Joe Mantello / James F. Wilson -- Tarell Alvin McCraney / Isaiah Matthew Wooden -- Terrence McNally / Virginia Anderson -- Muriel Miguel / Christy Stanlake -- Cherríe Moraga / Alicia Arrizón -- Daaimah Mubashshir / Adam Ashraf Elsayigh -- The NEA 4 : Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller / Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout -- Robert O'Hara / Faedra Carpenter -- Monica Palacios / Marci R. McMahon -- Miguel Piñero / Karen Jaime -- Billy Porter / Eric M. Glover -- Clint Ramos / Jimmy A. Noriega -- Guillermo Reyes / Jimmy A. Noriega -- Edwin Sánchez / Analola Santana -- Leigh Silverman / Bess Rowen -- Ana Maria Simo / Virginia Baeta -- Split Britches : Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, and Deb Margolin / Benjamin Gillespie -- Paula Vogel / Sara Warner -- Ron Whyte / Patrick McKelvey -- George C. Wolfe / Charles I. Nero -- BD Wong / Esther Kim Lee -- Chay Yew / Dan Bacalzo.
- ISBN
- 9781032067995
- 1032067993
- 9781032067964
- 1032067969
- 9781003203896 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000638882 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000638813 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022009953
- OCLC
- YBP 2022009953
- Title
Fifty key figures in queer US theatre / Edited by Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout.
- Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Routledge key guides
Routledge key guides.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
- Added Author
Noriega, Jimmy A., editor.
Schildcrout, Jordan, editor.
- Other Form:
Online version: Fifty key figures in queer US theatre Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9781003203896 (DLC) 2022009954