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Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35

Sara Freeman

University of Alabama Press, 2016

Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre “from the rubble of Berlin” and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of “Rethinking the Maternal” in contemporary and historical theatre. Also included is the Robert A. Schanke Award-winning essay “Whispers from a Silent Past: Inspiration and Memory in Natasha Tretheway’s Native Guard,” a keynote essay by Irma Mayorga, and eighteen reviews of new book publications of note.

Theatre History Studies, published since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC) is a leading scholarly publication in the field of theatrical history and theory. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

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Theatre History Studies 2018, Vol. 37

Sara Freeman

University of Alabama Press, 2018

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 37

STEFAN AQUILINA
Meyerhold and The Revolution: A Reading through Henri Lefebvre’s Theories on “Everyday Life”

VIVIAN APPLER
“Shuffled Together under the Name of a Farce”: Finding Nature in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon

KRISTI GOOD
Kate Soffel’s Life of Crime: A Gendered Journey from Warden’s Wife to Criminal Actress

PETER A. CAMPBELL
Staging Ajax’s Suicide: A Historiography

BRIAN E. G. COOK
Rousing Experiences: Theatre, Politics, and Change

MEGAN LEWIS
Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes: Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B and the Consequences of Staging the Colonial Gaze

PATRICIA GABORIK
Taking the Theatre to the People: Performance Sponsorship and Regulation in Mussolini’s Italy

ILINCA TODORUT AND ANTHONY SORGE
To Image and to Imagine: Walid Raad, Rabih Mouré, and the Arab Spring

SHULAMITH LEV-ALADGEM
Where Has the Political Theatre in Israel Gone? Rethinking the Concept of Political Theatre Today

CHRISTINE WOODWORTH
“Equal Rights By All Means!”: Beatrice Forbes-Robertson’s 1910 Suffrage Matinee and the Onstage Junction of the US And UK Franchise Movements

LURANA DONNELS O’MALLEY
“Why I Wrote the Phyllis Wheatley Pageant-Play”: Mary Church Terrell’s Bicentennial Activism

JULIET GUZZETTA
The Lasting Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame

ASHLEY E. LUCAS
Chavez Ravine: Culture Clash and the Political Project of Rewriting History

NOE MONTEZ
The Heavy Lifting: Resisting the Obama Presidency’s Neoliberalist Conceptions of the American Dream in Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

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Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39

Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

University of Alabama Press, 2020

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

MATTHIEU CHAPMAN
Red, White, and Black: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Structuring of Racial Antagonisms in Early Modern England and the New World

MICHAEL CHEMERS AND MICHAEL SELL
Sokyokuchi: Toward a Theory, History, and Practice of Systemic Dramaturgy

JEFFREY ULLOM
The Value of Inaction: Unions, Labor Codes, and the Cleveland Play House

CHRYSTYNA DAIL
When for “Witches” We Read “Women”: Advocacy and Ageism in Nineteenth-Century Salem Witchcraft Plays

MICHAEL DENNIS
The Lost and Found Playwright: Donald Ogden Stewart and the Theatre of Socialist Commitment

Part II: HEMISPHERIC HISTORIOGRAPHIES

EMILY SAHAKIAN, CHRISTIANA MOLLDREM HARKULICH, AND LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA
Introduction to the Special Section

PATRICIA YBARRA
Gestures toward a Hemispheric Theatre History: A Work in Progress

ERIC MAYER- GARCÍA
Thinking East and West in Nuestra América: Retracing the Footprints of a Latinx Teatro Brigade in Revolutionary Cuba

ANA OLIVAREZ-LEVINSON AND ERIC MAYER-GARCÍA
Intercambio: A Visual History of Nuevo Teatro from the Ana Olivarez-Levinson Photography Collection

JESSICA N. PABÓN-COLÓN
Digital Diasporic Tactics for a Decolonized Future: Tweeting in the Wake of #HurricaneMaria

LEO CABRANES-GRANT
Performance, Cognition, and the Quest for an Affective Historiography

Part III: Essays from the Conference

The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, from the 2019 Mid-America Theatre Conference

JULIE BURRELL
Reinventing Reconstruction and Scripting Civil Rights in Theodore Ward’s Our Lan’

The Robert A. Schanke Honorable Mention Essay, MATC 2019

MATTHEW MCMAHAN

Projections of Race at the Nouveau Cirque: The Clown Acts of Foottit and Chocolat

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