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- American Drama is published twice yearly by the American Drama Institute, and provides scholarly studies of dramatic literature from colonial to contemporary times.
Most Recent Articles from American Drama 
Rationalizing the "Decentered" White Male in Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue
First presented at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in November 1971, Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue articulates the rage felt by white men as...
7/1/07 by Gómez-Vega, Ibis · More from publication"Moments" the Fade, Love that Abides in Tina Howe's Painting Churches
Just as much as other Tina Howe plays, Painting Churches, from beginning to end, echoes the themes of a novelist Virginia Woolf, of whom Howe has...
7/1/07 by Loomis, Jeffrey · More from publication"Quite a Moon!": The Archetypal Feminine in Our Town
Near the end of Act I in Our Town, Wilder enumerates different characters' casual reactions to the moon or moonlight,1 establishing "a mood or...
7/1/07 by Shen, Min · More from publicationArthur Miller's Sojourn in the Heartland
The history of midwestern drama is one of identity masking and regional cross-fertilization. Quintessentially midwestern playwrights like Susan...
7/1/07 by Radavich, David · More from publicationReal Women Have Curves: A Feminist Narrative of Upward Mobility
The film Real Women Have Curves, directed by Patricia Cardoso and starring America Ferrera, was generally well-reviewed and achieved modest...
7/1/07 by Launius, Christie · More from publication'A Word By Which You Will Be Revealed': The Problem of Language in Will Eno's Monologues
In Will Eno's monologue Lady Grey (in ever-lower light), the eponymous narrator asks, "Does this ever happen to you? (Brief pause.) You're looking...
7/1/06 by Silverstein, Marc · More from publication