About the Author

John P. Harrington is dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He is author of several books including The Irish Beckett and The Life of the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street, also published by Syracuse University Press.

Reviews

Diaspora and theater are two of the most flourishing areas of Irish and Irish American studies. It was an excellent idea of John Harrington, who has done so much already to illuminate the Irish theater experience both in Ireland and America, to assemble a star-studded cast to contribute these absorbing essays into so stimulating a collection. Irish Theater in America pushes back the frontiers of our understanding of these two fascinating phenomena.-- "J. J. Lee, author of Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society"