"Frank Galati has been a prominent American artist since the 1980s and continues to create new and innovative work for the theatre. This book focuses on the Chicago years (1969-1996), and offers theatre historians, patrons, scholars, and students a unique source of primary information about a pivotal figure in a significant era of American theatre. It features exclusive interviews with Galati, selections from his unpublished notes and speeches, the observations of colleagues on his rehearsal process, and in-depth case studies of productions written, conceived, and directed by Galati, including The Grapes of Wrath (1988-90)"--