Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of these writers. Their plays, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theatre that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the experimental. This emphasis on popular culture is an attempt to offer new readings of these works with an eye to American cultural studies, highlighting Millay¹s, Cummings¹, and Dos Passos¹ insightful examination of mass entertainment and the tensions surrounding it at the time. This book also argues that these works play an important role in the development of American theatre more broadly.