In the second edition of her New American Dramatists Ruby Cohn carries her panoramic survey to 1990. Not only does she augment the existing chapters on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway, but she adds new material on women playwrights as well as Asian-American dramatists. With the emergence of David Mamet and Sam Shepard as major playwrights, she contrasts them for mutual illumination.
Editor's Preface - Looking Forward - Broadway Bound: Simon, Kopit,
McNally, Wilson - Roaming Around: Ribman, Robe, Guare, Hwang - Ladies' Day:
Owens, Howe, Henley, Norman - Actor Activated: Gelber, Horovitz, van Italie,
Terry, Fornes - Agit, Prop, and Political Purpose: the Becks, Holden, Valdez,
Nelson - Black on Black: Childress, Baraka, Bullins, Kennedy - From Gay to
Ridiculous: Duberman, Patrick, Tavel, Bernard, Ludlam - Visuals and Visions:
Foreman, Breuer - Eloquent Energies: Mamet, Shepard
