Anthology of new American plays: "The General Returns from One Place to Another" by Frank O'Hara; "The Madness of Lady Bright" by Lanford Wilson; "Chicago" by Sam Shepard; "The Great American Desert" by Joel Oppenheimer; "Balls" by Paul Foster; "America Hurrah" by Jean-Claude van Itallie; "The Successful Life of 3" by Maria Irene Fornes; and "Calm Down Mother" by Megan Terry; with an introduction by Michael Smith and notes by Joseph Cino, Ralph Cook, Rev. Al Carmines, Ellen Stewart, and Joseph Chaikin