- Surveys the key figures in the development and evolution of LGBTQ representation in contemporary US theatre.
- Aimed at the full breadth of theatre and performing arts students in the USA.
- No other book has the same breadth and depth of coverage in this subject area, or a comparable roster of leading scholars.
Jimmy A. Noriega is Professor of Theatre at the College of Wooster and President of the American Society for Theatre Research. He is the co-editor of Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas (2008) and the founder of Teatro Travieso/Troublemaker Theatre.
Jordan Schildcrout is Professor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase and author of In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays (Routledge, 2020) and Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater (2014).
Title: Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre (Routledge Key Guides)
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ISBN: 9781032067964
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-09-01
Number of Pages: 250
Weight: 0.3311 kg
In this compendium of elegantly crafted essays from leading and emerging voices in queer theater and performance studies, Noriega and Schildcrout have assembled a rich and diverse survey of queer theater makers in the half-century since Stonewall. An informative read and immensely useful resource for scholars and practitioners of the queer stage alike. - Joshua Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University, USA.
