Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>