American Buffalo | Historical Context

Although written in 1975, American Buffalo premiered on Broadway in 1977, in the midst of a theater season notable for its collection of odd—and, at times, disturbing—array of new characters. The winner of that year's Pulitzer Prize, Michael Cristofer's The Shadow Box, concerns the ends of three characters' lives as they wait for the deaths that their respective terminal illnesses will bring. Albert Innaurato's The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie examines a frightening mother-son relationship, where the child is filled with food by his mother to compensate for...

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