Introduction
Part 1 - The Audience
Chapter 1 The Audience: Its Role and Imagination
Chapter 2 Background and Expectations of the Audience
Chapter 3 The Critic and the Audience
Chapter 4 Stage Spaces
Part 2 The Performers And The Director
Chapter 5 Acting: Offstage and in the Past
Chapter 6 Stage Acting Today
Chapter 7 The Director and the Producer
Part 3 The Playwright And The Play
Chapter 8 - Creating the World of the Play
Chapter 9 Dramatic Structure: Climactic, Episodic, and Other Forms
Chapter 10 Dramatic Characters
Chapter 11 Tragedy and Other Serious Drama
Chapter 12 Comedy and Tragicomedy
Part 4 The Designers
Chapter 13 Scenery
Chapter 14 Costumes
Chapter 15 Lighting and Sound
Part 5 - The Theater Landscape Today
Chapter 16 - Contemporary American Theater
Chapter 17 Musical Theater
Chapter 18 - Contemporary World Theater
Epilogue: Integrating the Elements: Predicting the Future
Appendix A - Play Synopses King Oedipus and Sophocles Tartuffe and Moli猫re A Doll's House and Henrik Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov Mother Courage and Bertolt Brecht
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett A Raisin in the Sun and Lorraine Hansberry Fences and August Wilson
Appendix B Historical Outline
Appendix C Major Theatrical Forms and Movements
Appendix D Technical Terms
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index