TY - BOOK AU - Downer, Alan S TI - The American Theater PY - 1967/// CY - Washington PB - Voice of America KW - HISTORIA LITERARIA KW - Tesauro de la Unesco KW - CRÍTICA LITERARIA KW - TEATRO KW - ESCRITOR KW - ESTADOS UNIDOS N1 - Epilogue: The Future of the American Theater, by Alan S. Downer. - Includes brief biographies of the authors listed in the contents; Part I: Background; The Americanism of American Theater. Pioneers of the New Theater Movement. The Playwrights of the 1930; Part II: The Big Time; Broadway after World War II. Comedy and the Comic Spirit in America. Thorton Wilder. Tennessee Williams. Arthur Miller; Part III: The Makers; The Problems of the Producer. Interviews with E. Albee, M. Schisgal, S. Harnick and J.Bock; Part IV: Off-Broadway; The Noncommercial Theater in New York.The Professional Theater and the Universities.The Educational Theater in America ER -