Robert A. Schanke, a professor emeritus of theatre at Central College, Iowa, has contributed to numerous journals, reference books and anthologies. He is the author of ""That Furious Lesbian"": The Story of Mercedes de Acosta, winner of the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Ibsen in America: A Century of Change, Eva Le Gallienne: A Bio-Bibliography, and Shattered Applause: The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne.
Angels in the American Theater should be required reading for administrators and students alike. The essays are informative and readable, and the introduction by editor Robert A. Schanke is especially useful as an overview of theatre funding over the last century. - Gil Lazier, Dean of Theatre Emeritus, Florida State University. ""These essays work together admirably to fill a gaping hole in the historical record. Angels in the American Theater has the salutary effect of making us all consider those individuals who inspire, guide, and shape what gets on stage but who rarely are acknowledged as collaborators in the artistic process."" - Harley Erdman, author of Staging the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860-1920 ""Angels in the American Theater will encourage the reader to think about the nature of giving to the arts and the relationship of patron to artist in the modern theatre. The cumulative effect of these essays is to make one want to be generous to arts organizations.
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