Introduction -- Part I: The centralization and decline of the commercial theater -- The theater becomes centralized -- The decline of the road -- The boom and the decline in New York -- The causes of the decline -- Part II: The noncommerical theater: attempts at decentralization -- Beginnings -- Prototypes of the twenties -- The thirties -- Off-Broadway and off off-Broadway -- The resident theaters -- Part III: Art and economics -- The effects of economic changes in the commercial theater -- Aftermath.
