Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Poor “Black” Theatre: Mid-America Theatre Conference Keynote Address, March 7, 2009
Hit-and-Run Theatre: The Rise of a New Dramatic Form in Zimbabwe
Abject No More: Authority and Authenticity in the Theatrical Career of Rose McClendon
How Does the Show Go On? Theatre for Development in Post-election Kenya
The Unreported Miracle of Paul Robeson and The Miracle
Mvett Performance: Retention, Reinvention, and Exaggeration in Remembering the Past
“You Hip to Buffalo?” The Hidden Heritage of Black Theatre in Western New York
Masculine Women, Feminist Men: Assertions and Contradictions in Mawugbe’s In the Chest of a Woman
Understanding Paul Robeson’s Soviet Experience
Ota the Other: An African on Display in America
Oteller and Desdemonum: Defining Nineteenth-CenturyBlackness
“Looking at One’s Self through the Eyes of Others”: Representations of the Progressive Era Middle Class in W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Star of Ethiopia
Knowing Their Place: The Ulster Lyric Theatre, the Lyric Theatre, and the Northern Irish Theatre Scene
Thinking about the Theatre—and Theatre Critics: An Interview with Robert Brustein, Conducted by Bert Cardullo, New York City, July 2008
Book Reviews
Books Received
Contributors