American theatre in context, from the beginnings to 1870.
Structure and management in the American theatre from the beginning to 1870.
The plays and playwrights: plays and playwrights to 1800; plays and playwrights: 1800-1865.
The actors: European actors and the star system in the American theatre, 1752-1879.
The emergence of the American actor.
Scenography, stagecraft, and architecture in the American theatre: beginnings to 1870.
Paratheatricals and popular stage entertainment.
The hieroglyphic stage: American theatre and society, post-Civil War to 1945.
A changing theatre: New York and beyond.
Plays and playwrights: Civil War to 1896.
Plays and playwrights: 1896-1915.
Plays and playwrights: 1915-1945.
Theatre groups and their playwrights.
Scenography, stagecraft, and architecture.
American theatre in context: 1945-present.
Changing theatre: Broadway to the regions; Broadway.
Off-and off-off Broadway.
Regional/Resident theatre.
The plays and playwrights: plays and playwrights: 1945-1970; plays and playwrights since 1970.
Musical theatre since World War II.
American theatre design since 1945.
