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Introduction Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (bio) It is September 2021. As I write this and compile the final files for this volume, I am in the midst of directing the play Somewhere: A Primer for the End of Days by Marisela Treviño Orta, writing an article about the hippo population and folklore in Colombia, teaching and mentoring theatre students
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"A Good Union Doesn't Have to Be Dull": White-Collar Union Theatre Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Lisa Milner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "A Good Union Doesn't Have to Be Dull"White-Collar Union Theatre Lisa Milner (bio) At a union-owned space on New York's West Forty-Third Street, you will find the only labor union gallery in the nation, the Bread and Roses Gallery.1 With its origins in the 1199 Bread and Roses cultural project, it has been named "the most important cultural
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A Stained Glass Menagerie Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Matthieu Chapman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Stained Glass Menagerie Matthieu Chapman (bio) Winter 2012. La Jolla, California. I make my way across the University of California at San Diego campus to the La Jolla Playhouse to see our department's production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Usually, Tennessee Williams is not my preferred fare, but my Black roommate was
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Theatre Like an Oak in the Town Square Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Courtney Elkin Mohler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Theatre Like an Oak in the Town Square Courtney Elkin Mohler (bio) In the summer of 2021, the National New Play Network asked me to moderate a plenary panel titled "Decolonizing Theater's Relationship with Audiences" for their annual conference, "Growing Forward: Transcending the Transactional." The panel featured luminary artists, each
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TikTok Is Theatre, Theatre Is TikTok Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Trevor Boffone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: TikTok Is Theatre, Theatre Is TikTok Trevor Boffone (bio) I didn't expect to become a meme.1 But that's exactly where I found myself in spring 2019. I was scrolling through Instagram when I saw a video of two of my high school students and I dancing to "Fiesty" by Zachty with the text "get you a teacher like this" plastered across the
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Imagining Access: What Does Digiturgy Have to Offer? Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Alex Vermillion
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Imagining AccessWhat Does Digiturgy Have to Offer? Alex Vermillion (bio) When COVID-19 crept its way across the globe, public community spaces were among the first to shut down. Over a few weeks—or, in some areas, a few days—performance and art venues worldwide became uninhabited spaces, inaccessible to the public. Just as quickly as venues
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The Gaza Monologues: Palestine, Representation, and Reciprocity Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Samer Al-Saber, Jeanmarie Higgins, Ryan J. Douglass, Jeanmarie Higgins, Michael Schweikardt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Gaza Monologues Palestine, Representation, and Reciprocity Samer Al-Saber (bio), Jeanmarie Higgins (bio), Ryan J. Douglass (bio), Jeanmarie Higgins (bio), and Michael Schweikardt (bio) Introduction: What-Where is Prompt? Materiality in the Digital Space Prompt: A Journal of Theatre Theory, Practice, and Teaching is a generative space
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Editors' Introduction to the Special Section Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Angela K. Ahlgren, Victoria Fortuna
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors' Introduction to the Special Section Angela K. Ahlgren and Victoria Fortuna When I (Angie) taught a graduate seminar on dance history (called "Dance, Movement, Politics") in Bowling Green State University's theatre PhD program in 2019, students vocalized their reservations. They claimed—emphatically—that they knew nothing at all
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A Tale of Two Funerals: Surrogation and the Legacy of Florence Mills in Show Boat's Black Chorus (1927) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Bethany Wood
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Tale of Two FuneralsSurrogation and the Legacy of Florence Mills in Show Boat's Black Chorus (1927) Bethany Wood (bio) Solemnity suffused the streets of Harlem on Sunday, November 6, 1927, as thousands of mourners thronged the route of Florence Mills's funeral procession.1 The local chorine-turned-headliner had been diagnosed with pelvic
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The Branson Hillbilly: Commingling Power and Marginalization on the "Heartland" Stage Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Joanna Dee Das, Jay Buchanan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Branson HillbillyCommingling Power and Marginalization on the "Heartland" Stage Joanna Dee Das (bio) and Jay Buchanan (bio) In 1967, nineteen-year-old Gary Presley did not put on a tie-dye T-shirt to participate in the iconic "Summer of Love." He also did not throw a bottle to participate in the more than 150 rebellions against racism
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Choreographic Revisions: The Eagle Dance as Historical Hallmark of Unto These Hills Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Heidi L. Nees
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Choreographic RevisionsThe Eagle Dance as Historical Hallmark of Unto These Hills Heidi L. Nees (bio) Over the past few decades, there has been an upsurge in Native and Indigenous performance arts to revisit and remember—to tell through retelling—stories of the past and how they have shaped Native and Indigenous identities and knowledges
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"A Body without Labels": Anton Giulio Bragaglia and the Search for the Dancer-Actor in Fascist Italy Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Giulia Taddeo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "A Body without Labels"Anton Giulio Bragaglia and the Search for the Dancer-Actor in Fascist Italy Giulia Taddeo (bio) This article examines the work of Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890–1960), a theatre and film director, stage manager, militant critic, and theorist of theatre, dance, and cinema. During the 1920s, Bragaglia set out to reform
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Choreographing Displacement in Sankofa Danzafro's La Ciudad de los Otros Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Melissa Blanco Borelli
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Choreographing Displacement in Sankofa Danzafro's La Ciudad de los Otros Melissa Blanco Borelli (bio) There is a moment in the first half of Sankofa Danzafro's La Ciudad de los Otros where the dance company sits in a straight line across the stage. Purple lighting encircles them as they wait, bodies almost still except for the rhythmic
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Beckett Beyond the Normal ed. by Seán Kennedy (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Kelly I. Aliano
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Beckett Beyond the Normal ed. by Seán Kennedy Kelly I. Aliano Beckett Beyond the Normal. Edited by Seán Kennedy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. pp. vii + 155. $100.00 hardcover. The works of Samuel Beckett are quite well-studied within the dramatic canon. And yet, it seems that these writings never cease to offer
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Provocative Eloquence: Theatre, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States by Laura L. Mielke (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Gordon Alley-Young
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Provocative Eloquence: Theatre, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States by Laura L. Mielke Gordon Alley-Young Provocative Eloquence: Theatre, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States. By Laura L. Mielke. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. pp. ix + 284. $75.00 hardcover
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Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema by Hannah Durkin (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Joanna Dee Das
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema by Hannah Durkin Joanna Dee Das Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema. By Hannah Durkin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. pp. xiii + 256. $99.00 cloth, $27.95 paper, $14.95 e-book. Hannah Durkin's Josephine Baker
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Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century by Mary McAvoy (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Christiana Molldrem Harkulich
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century by Mary McAvoy Christiana Molldrem Harkulich Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century. By Mary McAvoy. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019. pp. 266. $90
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Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England by Rebecca Lemon (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Alani Hicks-Bartlett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England by Rebecca Lemon Alani Hicks-Bartlett Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England. By Rebecca Lemon. (Haney Foundation Series). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. pp. 280. $65.00 cloth. Rebecca Lemon's Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England offers
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Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790–1850 by Sara E. Lampert (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Erin Rachel Kaplan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790–1850 by Sara E. Lampert Erin Rachel Kaplan Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790–1850. By Sara E. Lampert. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. pp. ix + 225. $28.00 paperback. In her new historical exploration, Starring Women
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From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West by Carolyn Grattan Eichin (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Heather Kelley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West by Carolyn Grattan Eichin Heather Kelley From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West. By Carolyn Grattan Eichin. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2020. pp. 293. $60.00 cloth. In her fascinating book, From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian
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Law and Performance ed. by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Patrick Maley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Law and Performance ed. by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey Patrick Maley Law and Performance. Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. pp. 250. $29.95 paperback. The passage of laws restricting the rights of trans bodies
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Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance ed. by Barry Houlihan (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Karin Maresh
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance ed. by Barry Houlihan Karin Maresh Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance. Edited by Barry Houlihan. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. pp. i + 292. $60.95 paperback. Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive is the collaboration of several
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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography ed. by Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Heather S. Nathans
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography ed. by Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx Heather S. Nathans The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography. Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx. London: Routledge, 2021. pp. x + 495. $250.00 hardcover. Good books come from good conversations
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Le Théâtre du Soleil: The First Fifty-Five Years by Béatrice Picon-Vallin (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Sebastian Samur
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Le Théâtre du Soleil: The First Fifty-Five Years by Béatrice Picon-Vallin Sebastian Samur Le Théâtre du Soleil: The First Fifty-Five Years. By Béatrice Picon-Vallin. Translated by Judith Miller. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge, 2021. pp. ix + 453. $160.00 hardback, $44.95 softcover, $31.46 e-book. Le Théâtre du Soleil: The
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Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570–1630 by Natalie Crohn Schmitt (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Teresa Simone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570–1630 by Natalie Crohn Schmitt Teresa Simone Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570–1630. By Natalie Crohn Schmitt. London: Routledge, 2020. pp. 112. $59.95 hardback. Performing Commedia dell'Arte opens with a quotation from Italian Renaissance historian Massimo Ciavolella: "'We can say that
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Californios, Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West by Andrew Gibb (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Dennis Sloan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Californios, Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West by Andrew Gibb Dennis Sloan Californios, Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West. By Andrew Gibb. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. pp. xi + 248. $45.00 paper. At its heart, Andrew Gibb's Californios, Anglos, and the
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Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution by Yann Robert (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Kyle A. Thomas
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution by Yann Robert Kyle A. Thomas Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution. By Yann Robert. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. pp. 331. $79.95 cloth. The French Revolution brought with it numerous upheavals in
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Books Received Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received * indicates title assigned for review Boffone, Trevor, and Carla Della Gatta, eds. Shakespeare and Latinidad. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Brietzke, Zander. Magnum Opus: The Cycle Plays of Eugene O'Neill. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. *Essin, Christin. Working Backstage: A Cultural History and
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Contributors Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-06
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors ANGELA K. AHLGREN is an associate professor in and the graduate coordinator for the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics and has published articles in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Women and Music
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Introduction Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Odai Johnson, Chrystyna Dail, Jonathan Shandell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (bio), Odai Johnson (bio), Chrystyna Dail (bio), and Jonathan Shandell (bio) This editor's introduction takes a somewhat different form. Stay with me, please. There are three sections to it, which I leave intentionally unconnected by my prose, intentionally without transition, a structure reflective
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Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Odai Johnson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Un-Reading VoltaireThe Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason Odai Johnson (bio) "We no longer believe in ghosts? Who says so?" —g. e. lessing, hamburg dramaturgy "Even the Enlightened individual has not completely overcome the old belief." —theodor adorno and max horkheimer, "on the theory of ghosts," dialectic of enlightenment
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Caricatured, Marginalized, and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia's Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939 Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Jonathan Shandell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Caricatured, Marginalized, and ErasedAfrican American Artists and Philadelphia's Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939 Jonathan Shandell (bio) In July 1937, Federal Theatre Project (FTP) leadership engineered what they hoped would be a distinct course correction for the project's Negro Unit in Philadelphia. The Unit's two earlier productions—variety
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Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Scott Proudfit
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Stop Your SobbingWhite Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate Scott Proudfit (bio) When Brett Kavanaugh had an emotional breakdown during his 2018 Supreme Court hearings, the televised event became a prominent example of that rare contemporary social phenomenon "white men's tears
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Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Angela K. Ahlgren
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Asia and Alwin NikolaisInterdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance Angela K. Ahlgren (bio) The dancers in Alwin Nikolais's Kaleidoscope (1953 and 1956) appear in fullbody leotards that bisect their bodies in blocks of black and white.1 Makeup covers one half of their faces in white and the other half in black
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Editor's Introduction to the Special Section: Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Chrystyna Dail
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Introduction to the Special SectionShifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances Chrystyna Dail (bio) "It's the witch from next door." —stephen sondheim and james lapine, into the woods (1986) The Baker's line in Into the Woods introduces the character moments before we gaze upon her: aging and hunched, dressed in
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To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Jane Barnette
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: To Wright the WitchThe Case of Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft Jane Barnette (bio) When contemporary playwrights imagine worlds that include witch characters, they frequently do so under the assumption that the accusation of witchcraftstems from ignorance, superstition, or discrimination. More often than not, their so-called witches are outspoken
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Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare's Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter's Tale Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Jessica Ann Holt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Nothing Wicked This Way ComesShakespeare's Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter's Tale Jessica Ann Holt (bio) In the fall of 1485, the Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer began the trial of Helena Scheuberin, a woman of Innsbruck and an accused witch. Her trial did not go as planned. The Inquisitor insisted on focusing not on Scheuberin's
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Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Mamata Sengupta
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Of Women and WitchesPerforming the Female Body in Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom Mamata Sengupta (bio) In patriarchy, women's attempts at recording their personal and collective stories against the metanarrative of recorded history have often been met with severe sociocultural prohibitions. From Lilith and Medusa to Joan of Arc, the examples
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(Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba's Heroine Journey in Wicked Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Rebecca K. Hammonds
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: (Un)LimitedThe Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba's Heroine Journey in Wicked Rebecca K. Hammonds (bio) In her Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development, Susan Fraiman argues: "Becoming a woman may be thought of as, in Judith Butler's rephrasing of Simone de Beauvoir, 'an incessant
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Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 David Bisaha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Immersive WitchesNew York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell David Bisaha (bio) Immersed in Witchcraft I'm sitting in a darkened room, waiting for someone to show up. I'm surrounded by elaborately designed rooms: an office, a hospital, a boudoir, a cemetery, a hotel lobby. Curiosity, fear, and excitement fill me. Characters
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New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Lindsey Mantoan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: New Conventions for a New GenerationHigh School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s Lindsey Mantoan (bio) Scholars of musical theatre often point to midcentury musicals as constituting the so-called golden age of the art form, and the legacy of the time period looms large when studying subsequent musical genres and trends.1 In Changed for
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Edwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 David Carlyon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Edwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom David Carlyon Edwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History. By Arthur W. Bloom. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2019. Pp. ix + 334. $55, paperback. Arthur Bloom has done the field of theatre history estimable service with his biographies of Joseph
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Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago by David R. M. Beck (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Meredith Conti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago by David R. M. Beck Meredith Conti Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. By David R. M. Beck. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 299. $65.00, hardcover. In August 1891, Emma
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Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance ed. by Fintan Walsh (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Jeremy Cornelius
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance ed. by Fintan Walsh Jeremy Cornelius Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance. Edited by Fintan Walsh. New York: Methuen Drama, 2020. pp. xii + 232. $101.00 hardcover. As I read through this collection, concerns
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Women Adapting: Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen by Bethany Wood (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Jennifer Ewing-Pierce
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Women Adapting: Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen by Bethany Wood Jennifer Ewing-Pierce Women Adapting: Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen. By Bethany Wood. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 285. $89.69, cloth. The measure of a piece of scholarship's
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Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Brice Ezell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan Brice Ezell Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950. By Patrick Lonergan. London, UK: Methuen Drama, 2019. Pp. 280. $26.95, paperback. Patrick Lonergan's history of Irish drama and theatre in the second half of the twentieth century begins where one might expect it to: the
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Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia by Christian DuComb (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Paul Gagliardi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia by Christian DuComb Paul Gagliardi Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia. By Christian DuComb. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Pp. 1– 187. $24.95, paperback. In January 2020, the Froggy Carr Mummers Club danced
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Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina by Noe Montez (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Elizabeth Gray
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina by Noe Montez Elizabeth Gray Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina. By Noe Montez. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. Pp. 239 + xi. $45.00, paperback. Noe Montez's Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre
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Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England by Yasmin Arshad (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 William David Green
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England by Yasmin Arshad William David Green Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England. By Yasmin Arshad. New York: Bloomsbury/Arden Shakespeare, 2019. Pp. 337. $110.00, hardcover. Queen Cleopatra VII (69–30 BC), the last Ptolemaic
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Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68 by Kate Bredeson (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Alícia Hernàndez Grande
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68 by Kate Bredeson Alícia Hernàndez Grande Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68. By Kate Bredeson. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 216. $34.95, cloth. Kate Bredeson's Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68 is not only an excellent history of
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Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Meredith Conti (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Alani Hicks-Bartlett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Meredith Conti Alani Hicks-Bartlett Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine. By Meredith Conti. London: Rutledge, 2019. Pp. xiii + 196. $155.00, hardcover. Meredith Conti's Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age
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Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography by Amanda Weldy Boyd (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Rose Hilton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography by Amanda Weldy Boyd Rose Hilton Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography. By Amanda Weldy Boyd. New York, NY: Anthem, 2018. Pp. v + 209. $115.00, hardcover. Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical
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The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Catherine Quirk
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus Catherine Quirk The Drama of Celebrity. By Sharon Marcus. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. vi + 318. $29.95, hardcover. In concluding her detailed study of celebrity culture, Sharon Marcus notes that "most histories of celebrity culture emphasize change over time
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Books Received Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received *Indicates assigned for review Aronson, Arnold. The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography, Second Edition. New York: Methuen, 2018. Damodaran, Sumangala. The Radical Impulse: Music in the Tradition of the Indian People's Theatre Association. New Delhi: Tulika, 2017. *Davis, Tracy C., and Peter W. Marx, eds. The
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Contributors Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors ANGEL A K. AHLGREN is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, where she teaches performance studies and theatre history. She is the author of Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics and articles on taiko, performance, and pedagogy. Her current
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Introduction Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Odai Johnson, Chrystyna Dail, Jonathan Shandell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (bio), Odai Johnson (bio), Chrystyna Dail (bio), and Jonathan Shandell (bio) This editor's introduction takes a somewhat different form. Stay with me, please. There are three sections to it, which I leave intentionally unconnected by my prose, intentionally without transition, a structure reflective
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Books Received Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received *Indicates assigned for review Aronson, Arnold. The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography, Second Edition. New York: Methuen, 2018. Damodaran, Sumangala. The Radical Impulse: Music in the Tradition of the Indian People's Theatre Association. New Delhi: Tulika, 2017. *Davis, Tracy C., and Peter W. Marx, eds. The
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Contributors Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors ANGEL A K. AHLGREN is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, where she teaches performance studies and theatre history. She is the author of Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics and articles on taiko, performance, and pedagogy. Her current
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Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Angela K. Ahlgren
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Asia and Alwin NikolaisInterdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance Angela K. Ahlgren (bio) The dancers in Alwin Nikolais's Kaleidoscope (1953 and 1956) appear in fullbody leotards that bisect their bodies in blocks of black and white.1 Makeup covers one half of their faces in white and the other half in black
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Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Meredith Conti (review) Theatre History Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Alani Hicks-Bartlett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Meredith Conti Alani Hicks-Bartlett Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine. By Meredith Conti. London: Rutledge, 2019. Pp. xiii + 196. $155.00, hardcover. Meredith Conti's Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age