"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call the 'avant-garde.'" --Essays in Theatre

..". an insightful set of theoretical 'takes' on how to think about theatre before and theatre after modernism." --Theatre Journal

"In short, for those who never experienced a 'postmodern swoon, ' Elinor Fuchs is an excellent informant."...