American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a No Politics prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.