The Playwright's Voice - American Dramatists on Memory & Writing and the Politics of Culture

In extensive interviews, they discuss their work, influences and their craft and how the art form relates to our cultural heritage, as well as the state of theatre-its-meaning and purposes The fifteen playwrights interviewed in this volume have breathed new life into the American theatre. They range from white men to black women, from Hispanic American to Asian American, gay to straight, young to old

Featured playwrights include ...

Edward Albee
Jon Robin Baitz
Philip Kan Gotanda
Holly Hughes
Tony Kushner
Terrence McNally
Suzan-Lori Parks
Jose Rivers
Ntozake Shange
Nicky Silver
Anna Deveare Smith
Paul Vogel
Wendy Wasserstein
Mac Wellman
George C. Wolfe