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| Theatre and Its Audience | |
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| Cultural Collaboration: Theatre and Society | |
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| Theatre as Entertainment and Art | |
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| Exploring Cultural and Historical Perspectives: The Lure of Safe Conduct and Invisible Rabbits | |
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| The Social Functions of Theatre | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Theatre of War | |
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| Exploring Artists of the Theatre: National Theatre of the Deaf | |
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| Social Control of Theatre | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: Citizen Play Juries | |
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| Theatrical Choice in North America | |
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| Cultural Context and Personal Experience | |
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| Experiencing Theatre: Collaboration of Actor, Audience, and Space | |
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| The Audience | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: Spatial Collaboration: Commune and Pinocchio | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Brecht versus Wagner | |
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| The Nature of Acting | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Hypokrites to Actor | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Makeup as Mask: Kathakali | |
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| From Play to Production | |
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| Space | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Drottningholm Court Theatre | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Stratford Festival Theatre | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Performing Garage | |
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| Theatre and Transformation | |
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| Analyzing Theatre: Thinking and Writing about Live Performance | |
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| Theatre, Film, and Television | |
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| Analyzing Production | |
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| Thinking about Actor Performances | |
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| Thinking about Space and Design | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Effect of Audience Space on Angels in America | |
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| Understanding Style | |
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| Evaluating Production | |
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| The Role of the Critic | |
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| Writing about Production | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Theatre or Theater? | |
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| It Is More Than a Building | |
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| When It All Works | |
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| Understanding the Play: A Theatrical Blueprint Plot | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Deus ex Machina | |
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| Character | |
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| Thought | |
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| Language | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: Improvised Text | |
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| Music | |
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| Spectacle | |
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| Interpreting the Play: Understanding Genre, Reading, and Writing | |
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| Dramatic Genre | |
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| Reading a Play | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Exit, Pursued by a Bea;: Those Problematic Stage Directions | |
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| Writing about a Play | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Juliet Was a Guy in Drag? Changing Theatrical Conventions | |
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| Photo Gallery: Theatrical Diversity | |
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| Collaboration In Art And Practice | |
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| The Director: Vision and Leadership | |
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| Has Someone Always Been in Charge? | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Developing Concept | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: Peter Brook | |
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| Communicating and Managing the Artistic Vision | |
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| Collaborating with the Playwright | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Who Owns the Work | |
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| Directors and Absent Playwrights | |
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| Collaborating with Designers | |
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| Collaborating with Actors | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: Metamorphoses | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: George C. Wolfe | |
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| Collaborating with the Stage Manager | |
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| The Rehearsal Process | |
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| Opening the Production | |
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| The Actor: From Mask to Contemporary Performance | |
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| Development of the Actor | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: Bernadette Peters | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Contemporary Cross-Dressing | |
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| Acting Styles and Methods | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: James Earl Jones | |
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| The Actor's Work | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: Actors as Collaborators | |
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| The Playwright: Imagination and Expression | |
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| The Changing Position of the Playwright | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: Suzan-Lori Parks | |
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| The Playwright and Production | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: The Sondheim/Lapine Collaboration | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: Michael Frayn | |
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| Development of New Plays | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: The Rent Controversy | |
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| The Designer: Materializing Conception and the World of the Play | |
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| The Development of the Designer | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Development of the Revolve | |
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| The Designers' | |
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| Choices | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: Ming Cho Lee | |
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| The Scenic Designer's Work | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: Robert Edmund Jones with Arthur Hopkins | |
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| The Lighting Designer's Work | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer | |
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| The Costumer Designer's Work | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: William Ivey Long | |
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| The Sound Designer's Work | |
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| Integrating All the Designs | |
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| The Producer: Coordination, Promotion, Economics | |
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| Early Producers | |
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| The Role of the Producer | |
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| Artists of the Theatre: Harold Prince | |
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| The Economics of Theatre | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Stagehands Union 2007 Strike | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Federal Theatre Project | |
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| Photo Gallery: Interpreting Space and Design | |
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| Collaboration In History | |
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| Foundations: Classical Theatrical Forms | |
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| Classical Greece | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Rediscovering Menander | |
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| Classical Rome | |
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| Medieval Europe | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: The Community, the Church, and the Feast of Corpus Christi | |
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| Classical India | |
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| Classical China | |
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| Classical Japan | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Kabuki Cross-Dressing: The Onnagata | |
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| Reinterpretations: Europe Rediscovers the Western Classics | |
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| The Italian Renaissance | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Renaissance Court Entertainment | |
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| Elizabethan England | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Rediscovery of the Rose and Globe Theatres | |
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| The Spanish Golden Age | |
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| Seventeenth-Century France | |
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| Restoration England | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Americas | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: The Hallam Company in the American Colonies: A Family Affair | |
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| Revolutions: Romanticism to Postmodern Experiment | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Audience Has Its Say: Theatre Riots and Demonstrations | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Melodrama | |
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| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Nineteenth-Century Women Theatre Managers in Britain and the United States | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Realism and Naturalism | |
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| The Avant-Garde from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s | |
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| Exploring Collaboration: Founding an Alternative Theatre: The Provincetown Players | |
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| Modern and Contemporary Popular Theatre | |
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| The Recent Avant-Garde and Postmodern Experiment | |
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| Key Theatrical Events | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |