And while others will reference "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," and "Arcadia," and "Shakespeare in Love," and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," and "The Real Thing," I will buy a ticket to "Travesties" before any of them.

Pittsburgh is the Paris of Appalachia, and the northern panhandle of WV is due west. Pittsburgh is not the Midwest.

Ordering now! Congratulations and I'm looking forward to reading where the conversation is going next!

Not only did I first see Rick Cluchey in KRAPP’S LAST TAPE on one of these, but I screened ENDGAME for my own students on one.

Good lord I got a case nearly every summer when I lived in Morgantown. Upside: the z-pack of steroids was great for writing productivity.

I’d try that dish, but I’d avoid Pie-tus Andronicus.

Congrats on the new directions. I hope you'll thrive in the new environs!

What's most exciting about this review is that Cox, appointed in a Communication Studies department, pulls out different patterns and questions than other reviews have, foregrounding political communication more than theatre studies framing future questions in super-productive ways.

**Go read Lauren Berlant's final chapter from Cruel Optimism (2011), "On the Desire for the Political." It is very of-the-moment.

www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism