An African American preacher returns to his hometown to open a church, outwitting a segregationist plantation owner to make it happen.

A dynamic exploration of eight radical theater collectives from the 1960s and 70s, and their influence on contemporary performance

The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism traces intimate encounters between activists and local people of the civil rights movement

Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet sou

Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studie