Upstaging Big Daddy: directing theater as if gender and race matter

Editor’s introduction / Ellen Donkin and Susan Clement

Women, woman, and the subject of feminism: Feminist directions / Esther Beth Sullivan – Interpreting the text

Encountering Dora: Putting theory into practice / Jeanie Forte and Christine Sumption

The split subject of Blood Relations / Susan Clement and Esther Beth Sullivan

Top Girls and the politics of representation / Juli Thompson Burk

Black text, white director : Issues of race and gender in directing African-American drama / Ellen Donkin – Subverting the text

Strategies for subverting the canon / Gay Gibson Cima

Ways of looking at Agnes de Castro (1695) : a lesbian history play at WOW Cafe / Kendall

Resisting the Birth Mark : Subverting Hawthorne in a feminist theory play / Gayle Austin

Split Britches and the Alcestis lesson : ("What is this albatross?") / Sabrina Hamilton – Constructing the text

Wearing red: When a rowdy band of charismatics learned to say "NO!" / Glenda Dickerson

Straddling discourses / Marianne Goldberg

"Broads" too tight to sing / Ann Kilkelly

Directing Stein / Ellen Donkin and Susan Clement – Rehearsing the text

"I wanna be great!": How to rescue the spirit in the wasteland of fame / Andrea Hairston

A new way to pay old debts: The playwright directs her own / Joan Schenkar

Codirecting : A model for men directing feminist plays / John Lutterbie

Paper Dolls: Playthings that hurt / Addell Austin Anderson

"Not . . . but"/"not-not-me": Musings on cross-gender performance / Rhonda Blair

An interview with Amy Gonzalez: "All ears, to let my ideas transform" / Len Berkman

Aftermath : surviving the reviews / Joan Lipkin.