An eclectic collection of essays on theater and its decline as highbrow culture, under the influence of theme parks and blockbuster movies
Pt. IHistorical Pageants1Middlebrow Anxiety32The Queerest Art563The Haunted Stages of Modernity82Pt. IICloset Dramas4Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism: How Angels in America Reconstructs the Nation1075The Sadomasochist in the Closet: Sam Shepard, Robert Bly, and the New White Masculinity1346A Different Kind of Closet Drama; or, The Melancholy Heterosexuality of Jane Bowles1557Eat Me1708In and Out1809Paula Vagel as Male Impersonator187Notes205Index225