Introduction
PART I: Albee & LGBTQ Theatre & Performance, Ageism, and Latinx Drama
Chapter 1. The New Conservatory Theatre Story: Activist Action Moments in Progressive Theatres of Identity
Chapter 2. Reviving Medusa's Revenge, New York City's First Lesbian Theater Space
Chapter 3. "Different Rewards": Queer Gerontological Models in the Dramaturgy of Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Lanford Wilson
Chapter 4. The Making of an American Master Playwright: A History of Lanford Wilson's Home Free! and the Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit
Chapter 5. Whatever happened to Grandma?: Women and Aging in Edward Albee's The Sandbox (1960) and The American Dream (1961)
Chapter 6. "I know this game, you're playing. I know it very well": Albee as Influence and Counterpoint to Crowley's The Boys in the Band
Chapter 7. Albee, Fornés, and the Next Generation of Grotesque Theater
PART II: Albee and the Emergence of African-American Theatre
Chapter 8. Staging Politics of the Black Blues Bodies: Edward Albee's The Death of Bessie Smith in Conversation with August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Chapter 9. Visited by a Phantom: Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse Encounter with Edward Albee
Chapter 10. The Emergence of Identity and Protest through the Rhetorical Genre of American Absurdism
Chapter 11. "I am an American Writer Too": James Baldwin as Emergent Playwright
Chapter 12. Lorraine Hansberry and Anti-Colonial Drama on the Broadway Stage
Chapter 13. Student as Citizen: Illuminating Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun with Albee's Plays of 1959
Chapter 14. As a Black Woman Speaks and Dances: Embracing Intersectionality in Richards' A Black Woman Speaks (1950) and Shange's (1976)
