Jon D. Rossini, Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008).
Discusses plays by Miguel Piñero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis,
José Rivera, and Cherríe Moraga, among others.
June Schlueter, ed., Modern American Drama: The Female Canon (Rutherford,
N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990).
Twenty essays on twentieth-century plays by women.
Sanford Sternlicht, A Reader’s Guide to Modern American Drama (Syracuse, N.Y.:
Syracuse University Press, 2002).
Historical contexts, theater trends, biographies, discussions of works by some
eighty playwrights.
Jeffrey Ullom, The Humana Festival: The History of New Plays at Actors Theatre of
Louisville (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008).
Historical-critical account of the play festival in which many major contemporary
dramatists and dramas have debuted.
Stephen Watt, Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1998).
Analyses of works by David Rabe, Cherríe Moraga, Karen Finley, and others.
Don B. Wilmeth and Tice L. Miller, eds., Cambridge Guide to American Theatre,
updated edition (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Encyclopedic source with more than 2,300 entries.
PEOPLE OF I NTEREST
Edward Albee (1928– )
One of America’s most celebrated and controversial dramatists. His masterpiece
is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). He won the Pulitzer Prize in drama for
A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women (1994).
Laurie Anderson (1947– )
Performance artist, composer, and musician whose albums include United States
Live (1984) and Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (2000) as well as the
films Home of the Brave (1986) and Hidden Inside Mountains (2006).
David Auburn (1969– )
Playwright, screenwriter, and film director who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in
drama for Proof. Other plays include What Do You Believe about the Future? (1996)
and Skyscraper (1997).
Douglas Carter Beane (1959– )
Playwright and screenwriter. His plays include Advice from a Caterpillar (1990), The
Little Dog Laughed (2006), and the book for the musical Xanadu (2007).
Michael Bennett (1943–1987)
Choreographer and director of Company (1970), Follies (1971), and Dreamgirls
(1981). He also created the concept for A Chorus Line (1975).