Most Recent Articles from American Drama

• Real 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...

  07/01/07 by Launius, Christie · More from publication

• Arthur 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...

  07/01/07 by Radavich, David · 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...

  07/01/07 by Shen, Min · 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...

  07/01/07 by Loomis, Jeffrey · More from publication

• 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...

  07/01/07 by Gómez-Vega, Ibis · More from publication

• Grounded Perceptions: Land and Value in Two Plays of the New England Decline 

  In an 1896 piece for Harper's entitled "Among the Trees," Anna C. Brackett wrote of the effect of increasing urbanization and industrialization...

  07/01/06 by Anderson, Donald · More from publication

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