Staging America

Sonja Kuftinec is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota where she teaches courses in theater historiography and performance and social change. She has published several articles on the Cornerstone Theater Company and on her own community-based work in the Balkans.

This book will challenge any reader who questions what it means to create American theater.... [T]he author is bold and passionate about asking provocative questions throughout her text. - Theatre History Studies ""Kuftinec is so skilled at capturing the diversity in these performances that one wishes she would undertake the daunting task of a history of community theatre around the globe."" - Theatre Research International ""Kuftinec provides a highly readable and responsible overview of the academic and practical concerns informing community theatre practice today.... It stands as a good example of self-reflexive scholarship and a stimulating record of previously under-represented practice."" - Modern Drama ""[E]ssential reading for scholars interested in community-based theatre and American theatre history."" - Theatre Survey