Review
..." outstanding reference work, recommended for all collections... Informative, insightful, intellectually stimulating, the encyclopedia will be invaluable for theater arts, with potential use in interdisciplinary arts, music, cross-cultural studies, modern languages and literatures, and for intelligent travellers."
-"Choice, October 1996
"Impressive!."
-Eric Bentley
""The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: The Americas is the second volume in what has been called "the largest international co-operative undertaking in the history of cultural publishing." This is not mere hyperbole."
-"Quill & Quire
Product Description
The second volume of
WECT documents artistic development all over the Americas, country by country. Overall, the volumes record and analyse world theatre in some 177 countries from 1945 up to the present day.