Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine: Promoting a Modern American Theatre, 1916-1921

In the early decades of the 20th century, Sheldon Cheney was the American theatre's zealous missionary for modernism. In 1916, Cheney founded Theatre Arts Magazine in Detroit with the intent to foster and support a "renaissance" in America. Through this publication, Cheney gave voice to scores of "little theatres"-groups around the country with artistic aspirations and local commitment that would become the models for the American regional theatre movement later in the century.

In the first ...