David A. Crespy is Professor of Playwriting, Acting, Theatre History, and Dramatic Literature at the University of Missouri, USA.Les Gray is a dramaturg, collaborator, writer, and occasional performer. Their work has been featured in “Youth Theatre Journal” and “The Professor Is In.”

• IntroductionPART I: Albee & LGBTQ Theatre & Performance, Ageism, and Latinx DramaChapter 1. The New Conservatory Theatre Story: Activist Action Moments in Progressive Theatres of IdentityChapter 2. Reviving Medusa’s Revenge, New York City’s First Lesbian Theater SpaceChapter 3. “Different Rewards”: Queer Gerontological Models in the Dramaturgy of Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Lanford WilsonChapter 4. The Making of an American Master Playwright: A History of Lanford Wilson’s Home Free! and the Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights UnitChapter 5. Whatever happened to Grandma?: Women and Aging in Edward Albee’s The Sandbox (1960) and The American Dream (1961)Chapter 6. “I know this game, you're playing. I know it very well”: Albee as Influence and Counterpoint to Crowley’s The Boys in the BandChapter 7. Albee, Fornés, and the Next Generation of Grotesque TheaterPART II: Albee and the Emergence of African-American TheatreChapter 8. Staging Politics of the Black Blues Bodies: Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith in Conversation with August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black BottomChapter 9. Visited by a Phantom: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse Encounter with Edward AlbeeChapter 10. The Emergence of Identity and Protest through the Rhetorical Genre of American Absurdism Chapter 11. “I am an American Writer Too”: James Baldwin as Emergent PlaywrightChapter 12. Lorraine Hansberry and Anti-Colonial Drama on the Broadway StageChapter 13. Student as Citizen: Illuminating Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun with Albee’s Plays of 1959Chapter 14. As a Black Woman Speaks and Dances: Embracing Intersectionality in Richards’ A Black Woman Speaks (1950) and Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1976)

David A. Crespy is Professor of Playwriting, Acting, Theatre History, and Dramatic Literature at the University of Missouri, USA.Les Gray is a dramaturg, collaborator, writer, and occasional performer. Their work has been featured in “Youth Theatre Journal” and “The Professor Is In.”

• IntroductionPART I: Albee & LGBTQ Theatre & Performance, Ageism, and Latinx DramaChapter 1. The New Conservatory Theatre Story: Activist Action Moments in Progressive Theatres of IdentityChapter 2. Reviving Medusa’s Revenge, New York City’s First Lesbian Theater SpaceChapter 3. “Different Rewards”: Queer Gerontological Models in the Dramaturgy of Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Lanford WilsonChapter 4. The Making of an American Master Playwright: A History of Lanford Wilson’s Home Free! and the Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights UnitChapter 5. Whatever happened to Grandma?: Women and Aging in Edward Albee’s The Sandbox (1960) and The American Dream (1961)Chapter 6. “I know this game, you're playing. I know it very well”: Albee as Influence and Counterpoint to Crowley’s The Boys in the BandChapter 7. Albee, Fornés, and the Next Generation of Grotesque TheaterPART II: Albee and the Emergence of African-American TheatreChapter 8. Staging Politics of the Black Blues Bodies: Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith in Conversation with August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black BottomChapter 9. Visited by a Phantom: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse Encounter with Edward AlbeeChapter 10. The Emergence of Identity and Protest through the Rhetorical Genre of American Absurdism Chapter 11. “I am an American Writer Too”: James Baldwin as Emergent PlaywrightChapter 12. Lorraine Hansberry and Anti-Colonial Drama on the Broadway StageChapter 13. Student as Citizen: Illuminating Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun with Albee’s Plays of 1959Chapter 14. As a Black Woman Speaks and Dances: Embracing Intersectionality in Richards’ A Black Woman Speaks (1950) and Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1976)

David A. Crespy is Professor of Playwriting, Acting, Theatre History, and Dramatic Literature at the University of Missouri, USA.Les Gray is a dramaturg, collaborator, writer, and occasional performer. Their work has been featured in “Youth Theatre Journal” and “The Professor Is In.”

• IntroductionPART I: Albee & LGBTQ Theatre & Performance, Ageism, and Latinx DramaChapter 1. The New Conservatory Theatre Story: Activist Action Moments in Progressive Theatres of IdentityChapter 2. Reviving Medusa’s Revenge, New York City’s First Lesbian Theater SpaceChapter 3. “Different Rewards”: Queer Gerontological Models in the Dramaturgy of Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Lanford WilsonChapter 4. The Making of an American Master Playwright: A History of Lanford Wilson’s Home Free! and the Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights UnitChapter 5. Whatever happened to Grandma?: Women and Aging in Edward Albee’s The Sandbox (1960) and The American Dream (1961)Chapter 6. “I know this game, you're playing. I know it very well”: Albee as Influence and Counterpoint to Crowley’s The Boys in the BandChapter 7. Albee, Fornés, and the Next Generation of Grotesque TheaterPART II: Albee and the Emergence of African-American TheatreChapter 8. Staging Politics of the Black Blues Bodies: Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith in Conversation with August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black BottomChapter 9. Visited by a Phantom: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse Encounter with Edward AlbeeChapter 10. The Emergence of Identity and Protest through the Rhetorical Genre of American Absurdism Chapter 11. “I am an American Writer Too”: James Baldwin as Emergent PlaywrightChapter 12. Lorraine Hansberry and Anti-Colonial Drama on the Broadway StageChapter 13. Student as Citizen: Illuminating Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun with Albee’s Plays of 1959Chapter 14. As a Black Woman Speaks and Dances: Embracing Intersectionality in Richards’ A Black Woman Speaks (1950) and Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1976)