Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
 
THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES, VOLUME 38
 
PART I: Studies in Theatre History
 
ELIZABETH COEN
Hanswurst’s Public: Defending the Comic in the Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Vienna


BRIDGET MCFARLAND
“This Affair of a Theatre”: The Boston Theatre Controversy and the Americanization of the Stage
 
RYAN TVEDT
From Moscow to Simferopol: How the Russian Cubo-Futurists Accessed the Provinces
 
DANIELLA VINITSKI MOONEY
So Long Ago I Can’t Remember: GAle GAtes et al. and the 1990s Immersive Theatre
 
Part II: The Site-Based Theatre Audience Experience: Dramaturgy and Ethics
                —EDITED BY PENELOPE COLE AND RAND HARMON
 
PENELOPE COLE
Site-Based Theatre: The Beginning
 
PENELOPE COLE
Becoming the Mob: Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson’s Coriolan/us
 
SEAN BARTLEY
A Walk in the Park: David Levine’s Private Moment and Ethical Participation in Site-Based Performance
 
DAVID BISAHA
“I Want You to Feel Uncomfortable”: Adapting Participation in A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre
 
COLLEEN RUA
Navigating Neverland and Wonderland: Audience as Spect-Character
 
GUILLERMO AVILES-RODRIGUEZ, PENELOPE COLE, RAND HARMON, AND ERIN B. MEE
Ethics and Site-Based Theatre: A Curated Discussion
 
PART III: The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay from the 1038 Mid-America Theatre Conference
 
MICHELLE GRANSHAW
Inventing the Tramp: The Early Tramp Comic on the Variety Stage