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"Zachary Asher's second collection, gone bird in the glass hours, is a play in verse, featuring seven voices. Its opening act introduces readers to a young Rabbi, bewildered and bent by personal grief, while still trying to lead his congregation. The Rabbi is guided and beguiled by another figure, the elusive Blue Postman, who shepherds the Rabbi through his journey through "the glass hours.""--

American poetry. --- American drama.

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The Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past forty years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and black cultural politics. The Café's performances--poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama--have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interview, Nuyorican Feminist Performance examines the contributions of 1970s and '80s performeras and how they challenged the Café's gender politics. It also looks at recent artists who have built on that foundation with hip hop performances that speak to contemporary audiences. The book spotlights the work of foundational artists such as Sandra María Esteves, Martita Morales, Luz Rodríguez, and Amina Muñoz, before turning to contemporary artists La Bruja, Mariposa, Aya de León, and Nilaja Sun, who infuse their poetry and solo pieces with both Nuyorican and hip hop aesthetics.

Poets, Puerto Rican --- Puerto Rican poetry --- Puerto Rican women --- American drama --- Women dramatists, American --- Puerto Rican authors. --- Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

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"This book demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000. This is the first study to combine the topics of the politics of performance, LGBT theatre, and mainstream theatre’s political potential, a juxtaposition that shows how radical ideas become mainstream, that is, how the dominant ideology changes. Using materialist semiotics and extensive archival research, Juntunen delineates the cultural history of four pivotal productions from that period—Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart (1985), Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1992), Jonathan Larson’s Rent (1996), and Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project (2000). Examining the connection between AIDS, mainstream theatre, and the media reveals key systems at work in ideological change over time during a deadly epidemic whose effects changed the nation forever. Employing media theory alongside nationalism studies and utilizing dozens of reviews for each case study, the volume demonstrates that reviews are valuable evidence of how a production was hailed by society’s ideological gatekeepers. Mixing this new use of reviews alongside textual analysis and material study—such as the theaters’ locations, architectures, merchandise, program notes, and advertising—creates an uncommonly rich description of these productions and their ideological effects. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre, politics, media studies, queer theory, and US history, and to those with an interest in gay civil rights, one of the most successful social movements of the late twentieth century." --

Gays and the performing arts --- Homosexuality in the theater --- Theater --- American drama --- Homosexuality in literature. --- AIDS (Disease) in literature. --- Homosexuels et arts du spectacle --- Homosexualité au théâtre --- Théâtre --- Théâtre américain --- Homosexualité dans la littérature. --- Sida dans la littérature. --- American drama. --- Gays and the performing arts. --- Homosexuality in the theater. --- Theater. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique. --- Gay people and the performing arts --- Gay people and the performing arts.