Sidney Homan is Professor of English at the University of Florida and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars. An actor and director in professional and university theatres, he is the author or editor of 18 books on Shakespeare and the modern playwrights.

• Introduction: Why? Sidney HomanPart 1: The Creative Role of the Audience 1. Vouchsafe Me Audience Nick Hutchison 2. Training the Eye S. P. Cerasano 3. Undeveloped Freight: Listening Together in the Playhouse Robert Price 4. A Shakespeare Professor Becomes a Playgoer Alan C. Dessen 5. Acting the Storm: Twenty Years of Tempests June Schlueter 6. From Theatre to Classroom: Making Teaching Effective Fred Kiefer Part II: The Life of the Actor, Director, and Playwright in Performance 7. Why the Theatre? Breaking of the Fourth Wall Gary Lagden 8. Play, Devising, and the Creative Process Brian Rhinehart 9. I Am Thrilled by an Impure Theatre Sidney Homan 10. In the Nick: Theatre in and of Our Times Jerry Harp 11. "The Play" May Not Be "The Thing"—But Something IsErica Terpening-Romeo 12. Why Butoh Theatre: Thoughts of the Actor, Questions From the Director Yokko ( Yoshiko Sienkiewicz ) and Brian Rhinehart13. Amateur Hour, or Notes From a Hack Playwright Paul Menzer Part III: When the Theatre Moves Beyond the Stage Into the Real World 14. Theatre for Health Joanna Howarth 15. Why Make Theatre in the South Pacific? A Personal View of Theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand David O’Donnell 16. Empathy Is Essential Kristin Kundert 17. The Art of Failure Katherine McGerr 18. Why Teach Theatre? Gina MacKenzie 19. Making Theatre Around the World, and What It Has Taught Me Avra Sidiroupoulou Part IV: Theories and Thoughts About What the Theatre Can Do When Given Form Onstage 20. The Cruelty Tourist and the Emancipated Spectator: Looking for an Essential Theatre Ralf Remshardt 21. Theatre and the Digital Native Donna Soto-Morettini 22. Remembering Dreams Fran Teague 23. Theatrical Pleasure and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel Joseph Candido 24. Yeat's "Lapis Lazuli" as Theatrum Mundi Daniel T. O’Hara 25. Why (Not) Theatre? Stage, Screen, and Streaming in a Pandemic Patrick Hart 26. Because Cary M. Mazer Epilogue: "Yeh, Boss"Sidney Homan

Sidney Homan is Professor of English at the University of Florida and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars. An actor and director in professional and university theatres, he is the author or editor of 18 books on Shakespeare and the modern playwrights.

• Introduction: Why? Sidney HomanPart 1: The Creative Role of the Audience 1. Vouchsafe Me Audience Nick Hutchison 2. Training the Eye S. P. Cerasano 3. Undeveloped Freight: Listening Together in the Playhouse Robert Price 4. A Shakespeare Professor Becomes a Playgoer Alan C. Dessen 5. Acting the Storm: Twenty Years of Tempests June Schlueter 6. From Theatre to Classroom: Making Teaching Effective Fred Kiefer Part II: The Life of the Actor, Director, and Playwright in Performance 7. Why the Theatre? Breaking of the Fourth Wall Gary Lagden 8. Play, Devising, and the Creative Process Brian Rhinehart 9. I Am Thrilled by an Impure Theatre Sidney Homan 10. In the Nick: Theatre in and of Our Times Jerry Harp 11. "The Play" May Not Be "The Thing"—But Something IsErica Terpening-Romeo 12. Why Butoh Theatre: Thoughts of the Actor, Questions From the Director Yokko ( Yoshiko Sienkiewicz ) and Brian Rhinehart13. Amateur Hour, or Notes From a Hack Playwright Paul Menzer Part III: When the Theatre Moves Beyond the Stage Into the Real World 14. Theatre for Health Joanna Howarth 15. Why Make Theatre in the South Pacific? A Personal View of Theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand David O’Donnell 16. Empathy Is Essential Kristin Kundert 17. The Art of Failure Katherine McGerr 18. Why Teach Theatre? Gina MacKenzie 19. Making Theatre Around the World, and What It Has Taught Me Avra Sidiroupoulou Part IV: Theories and Thoughts About What the Theatre Can Do When Given Form Onstage 20. The Cruelty Tourist and the Emancipated Spectator: Looking for an Essential Theatre Ralf Remshardt 21. Theatre and the Digital Native Donna Soto-Morettini 22. Remembering Dreams Fran Teague 23. Theatrical Pleasure and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel Joseph Candido 24. Yeat's "Lapis Lazuli" as Theatrum Mundi Daniel T. O’Hara 25. Why (Not) Theatre? Stage, Screen, and Streaming in a Pandemic Patrick Hart 26. Because Cary M. Mazer Epilogue: "Yeh, Boss"Sidney Homan

Sidney Homan is Professor of English at the University of Florida and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars. An actor and director in professional and university theatres, he is the author or editor of 18 books on Shakespeare and the modern playwrights.

• Introduction: Why? Sidney HomanPart 1: The Creative Role of the Audience 1. Vouchsafe Me Audience Nick Hutchison 2. Training the Eye S. P. Cerasano 3. Undeveloped Freight: Listening Together in the Playhouse Robert Price 4. A Shakespeare Professor Becomes a Playgoer Alan C. Dessen 5. Acting the Storm: Twenty Years of Tempests June Schlueter 6. From Theatre to Classroom: Making Teaching Effective Fred Kiefer Part II: The Life of the Actor, Director, and Playwright in Performance 7. Why the Theatre? Breaking of the Fourth Wall Gary Lagden 8. Play, Devising, and the Creative Process Brian Rhinehart 9. I Am Thrilled by an Impure Theatre Sidney Homan 10. In the Nick: Theatre in and of Our Times Jerry Harp 11. "The Play" May Not Be "The Thing"—But Something IsErica Terpening-Romeo 12. Why Butoh Theatre: Thoughts of the Actor, Questions From the Director Yokko ( Yoshiko Sienkiewicz ) and Brian Rhinehart13. Amateur Hour, or Notes From a Hack Playwright Paul Menzer Part III: When the Theatre Moves Beyond the Stage Into the Real World 14. Theatre for Health Joanna Howarth 15. Why Make Theatre in the South Pacific? A Personal View of Theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand David O’Donnell 16. Empathy Is Essential Kristin Kundert 17. The Art of Failure Katherine McGerr 18. Why Teach Theatre? Gina MacKenzie 19. Making Theatre Around the World, and What It Has Taught Me Avra Sidiroupoulou Part IV: Theories and Thoughts About What the Theatre Can Do When Given Form Onstage 20. The Cruelty Tourist and the Emancipated Spectator: Looking for an Essential Theatre Ralf Remshardt 21. Theatre and the Digital Native Donna Soto-Morettini 22. Remembering Dreams Fran Teague 23. Theatrical Pleasure and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel Joseph Candido 24. Yeat's "Lapis Lazuli" as Theatrum Mundi Daniel T. O’Hara 25. Why (Not) Theatre? Stage, Screen, and Streaming in a Pandemic Patrick Hart 26. Because Cary M. Mazer Epilogue: "Yeh, Boss"Sidney Homan