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
 

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

Introduction
—LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELL

PART I
STUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORY

Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason
—ODAI JOHNSON

Caricatured, Marginalized,
and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia’s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939               
—JONATHAN SHANDELL

Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate
—SCOTT PROUDFIT

Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance
—ANGELA K. AHLGREN

PART II
WITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCE

Editor’s Introduction to the Special Section
Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances
—CHRYSTYNA DAIL

To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft
—JANE BARNETTE

Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare’s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter’s Tale
—JESSICA HOLT

Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom
—MAMATA SENGUPTA

(Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba’s Heroine Journey in Wicked
—REBECCA K. HAMMONDS

Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell
—DAVID BISAHA

PART III
Essay from the Conference

The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020
New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s
—LINDSEY MANTOAN