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Introduction by Jocelyn L. Buckner

Part I: Studies in Theatre History

Training Aztlán to Act: Chicanx Theatre, TENAZ, and Theatre as Social Change by Dennis Sloan

Revisiting Mei Lanfang’s 1930 USA Tour: Triumphs of Curation by Chao Guo and Josh Stenberg

Robey Theatre Company’s Bronzeville: Critical Historical Performance of Afro-Asian Political Economy in Los Angeles by Zachary F. Price

Part II: Manifestos for Black Theatre, Then and Now

Introduction to the Special Section by Isaiah Matthew Wooden and Eric M. Glover

“Cake Walks and Culture”: The Black Struggle for Sovereignty at the Dawn of Jim Crow by Daniel E. Atkinson

“I Thought I Loved Him, . . . the Pale Coward”: The Politics of Interracial Love in W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Seven-Up” by Paul Michael Thomson

When, Where, and How We Enter: Early Black Feminist Ruminations on Black Dramaturgies by Jordan Ealey

Histories of the Counter-Future: Theodore Ward, Alice Childress, and the Manifestos of the People’s Theatre by Julie Burrell

Seen/Scene: Suzan-Lori Parks’s Manifesto for Black People Onstage Revisited by Leticia L. Ridley

Part III: Essay from the Conference: The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2022

A Manifesto in Motion: Reimagining Collective Dance Histories Through Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s Continuous Replay by Ariel Nereson

Part IV: Book Reviews

Katrina M. Phillips, Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, reviewed by Ashlyn King Baruti

Joshua Langman, Standby: An Approach to Theatrical Design, reviewed by David Bisaha

Ryan Claycomb, In the Lurch: Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation, reviewed by Jordana Cox

Bradley Rogers, The Song Is You: Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance, reviewed by Adam Goldstein

Esther Kim Lee, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era, reviewed by Amy B. Huang

Ambereen Dadabhoy and Nedda Mehdizadeh, Anti-Racist Shakespeare, reviewed by Danielle Rosvally

Jackson R. Bryer, Robert M. Dowling, and Mary C. Hartig, Editors, Conversations with Sam Shepard, reviewed by Bradford G. Sadler

Jeffery Kennedy, Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players, reviewed by Richard Sautter

David Bisaha, American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism, reviewed by Michael Schweikardt

Meredith Conti and Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Editors, Theatre of the Macabre, reviewed by Margo Skornia

Julie Stone Peters, Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe, reviewed by Scott Venters

Books Received

Contributors