目次
1. Introduction to the 1950s -- 2. American Theatre in the 1950s . Introduction; Notable Playwrights of the Decade; O'Neill, Miller and Williams; New Playwrights; Ethnic Drama and Plays of Otherness; Key Theatre Practitioners beyond the Playwrights; Important Stage Directors; Important Stage Designers; Political Drama; African-American Theater; Musical Theatre; Television Drama; Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, Regional, and College Theater; Community and Children's Theater -- 3. William Inge: Come Back Little Sheba (1950), Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957); Background; Inge's Theater: Come Back Little Sheba (1950), Picnic (1953); Bus Stop (1955); The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957) -- 4. Stephen Sondheim: West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959) with collaborators Jerome Robbins and Arthur Laurents -- 5. Alice Childress: Florence (1949), Gold Through the Trees (1952) and Trouble in Mind (1955) --
6. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee: Inherit the Wind (1955), Auntie Mame (1956), The Gang's All Here (1959) --
Documents. Popular writings from the 1950s: From: "The Spirit of the Age" in Company Manners by Leo Kronenberger (1955), From: "Introduction" to The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (1952), From: The Bride's Cookbook by Poppy Cannon (1954), From: The Crack in the Picture Window by John Keats (1956), From: The Vanishing Adolescent by Edgar Z. --
Friedenberg (1959), From: 100 Things You Should Know About Communism and Education (1951); Extracts from House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings 1952-1956: From the statement and affidavit of Elia Kazan to HUAC 9 April 1952, From the statement of Edward G Robinson to HUAC 30 April 1952, From the intended statement of Paul Robeson to HUAC 12 June 1956, From the testimony of Arthur Miller to HUAC 21 June 1956; Theater in the 1950s: From "West Side Story" in: The Theater In Spite of Itself by Walter Kerr (1963); From "For a Negro Theatre" by Alice Childress (Masses and Mainstream February 1951); From "Monkeying with the Scopes Trial" by Henry Hewes (Saturday Review 1955); Excerpts from "Foreword" to Four Plays by William Inge, From Summer Brave by William Inge
