Introd: American theatre history scholarship / Oscar G. Brockett
The theatre and its audience : changing modes of social organization in the American theatre / Douglas McDermott
Puritan mercantilism and the politics of anti-theatrical legislation in colonial America / Peter A. Davis
"Lady-managers" in nineteenth-century American theatre / Vera Mowry Roberts
Hustlers in the house : the Bowery Theatre as a mode of historical information / Rosemarie K. Bank
Museum theatre and the problem of respectability for mid-century urban Americans / Bruce A. McConachie
Social awareness on stage : tensions mounting, 1850-1859 / Walter J. Meserve
The development of the American theatre program / Marvin Carlson
The Hyers Sisters : pioneers in black musical comedy / Errol Hill
Money without glory : turn-of-the century America's women playwrights / Felicia Hardison Londre.
"For laughing purposes only" : the literature of American popular entertainment / Brooks McNamara
E pluribus unum : Berhardt's 1905-1906 farewell tour / Stephen M. Archer
Commercialism glorified and vilified : 1920s theatre and the business world / Ronald H. Wainscott
Quicksilver revisited : a portrait of the American stage in the 1930s / Charles H. Shattuck
The economic structure of the Federal Theater Project / Barry B. Witham
The American Repertory Theatre (1946-1947) and the repertory ideal, a case study / Daniel J. Watermeier
Sojourning in Never Never Land : the idea of Hollywood in recent theatre autobiographies / Thomas Postlewait
Consuming the past : commercial American theatre in the Reagan era / Alan Woods
Narrative strategies in selected studies of American theatre economics / Margaret M. Knapp.
Multiculturalism versus technoculturalism : its challenge to American theatre and the functions of arts management / Stephen Langley
Checklist of selected books on American theatre, 1960-1990 / Don B. Wilmeth.