Richard Barr: the playwright's producer

Introduction : "You have to hock your house: the story of a producer"

Privilege with a price : Washington, Princeton, and early theatre efforts

Playing with martians : stage and screen with Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre

A theatrical warrior : Lieutenant Richard Barr

Learning the director's craft : stock, Broadway, and City Center

Broadway beginnings : Ethyl Waters, Ruth Draper, and theatrical collage

The zoo story : discovering Edward Albee

Producers at work : on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway

Experimenting with Edward Malcolm to all over

Hocking the house : Seascape to Sweeney Todd

Brightening Broadway's lights : Barr's legacy to the American theatre

Afterword / Edward Albee.