Theaters of the Everyday

"In luminous prose, Gallagher-Ross traces a persuasive narrative of the American theater as the preserve of the proudly ordinary, showing how this facet of American performance anticipates the archiving of everyday experience in digital media." —Performance, Theater, Drama
 

“Gallagher-Ross’s writing is lucid, supple, and precise, and his prose gives pleasure in itself. He does an excellent job of placing each of his subjects in its literary/theatrical context, and it is impressive that he is able to pursue his themes across such a diverse group of performance practitioners. A marvelous book."  —Philip Auslander, author of Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

"This is an elegantly written and philosophically rich study of American theater artists, and one that productively uncovers an avant-garde attentiveness to the everyday concealed by the overly broad mantle of realism." —Laura Levin, author of Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending In

"The everydays in Jacob Gallagher-Ross’s stunning, highly original book are relentlessly dependent on the physical or visible (and auditory) world in which we are enmeshed, yet they are simultaneously the stuff of magic, epiphany, and wonder—precisely the transmundane." —Theater Journal