Staging America : : twenty-first-century dramatists / / Christopher Bigsby.

• VerfasserIn: Bigsby, C. W. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: London, England : : Methuen Drama,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019; 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages)

A new generation of playwrights, whose careers began in this century, has emerged, and done so when American theatre and society was changing. Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century America, Staging America explores the lives and works of 8 award-winning playwrights - including Ayad Akhtar, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Young Jean Lee and Quiara Allegría Hudes - whose backgrounds reflect the social, religious, sexual and national diversity of American society. Each chapter is devoted to a single playwright and provides an overview of their career, a description and critical evaluation of their work, as well as a sense of their reception.