This book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present.

A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.

This 2003 book examines the growth and influence of the theatre in the development of the young American Republic.

This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.

A revisionist study of the cultural neglect of American drama.

Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards, American-authored stage plays, and poetry and fiction by early Republican writers. American theatre is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions in writing and acting provide material and templates by which Americans see and express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analyses of plays both inside and outside of the early American 'canon', this book confronts matters of political, ethnic and cultural identity by moving from play text to theatrical context and from historical event to audience demography.

This 2003 book provides a detailed examination of the operations of the US Federal Theatre Project in the decade of the 1930s.