Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index.
"Not having it all": Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon woman -- Interview with wendy Wasserstein -- Birth, baptism, and resurrection: August Wilson and the blues -- Interview with August Wilson -- Broadway boundaries: Neil Simon and popular culture -- Interview with Neil Simon -- Lessons from our first frontier -- Interview with Robert Schenkkan -- Kushner's arcades: "the borders are full of holes" -- Interview with Tony Kushner -- "A's" last memory: contextualizing Albee's Three tall women -- Interview with Edward Albee -- Horton Foote: mystic of the American theatre -- Interview with Horton Foote -- Jonathan Larson rocks broadway -- Conversations with Jonathan Larson -- Seducing the audience: politics in the plays of Paula Vogel -- Interview with Paula Vogel -- Margaret Edson: playwright in spite of herself -- Donald Margulies: from Boitschick to man