Contents
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Company: Keynote Speech from the Thirty-second Mid-AmericaTheatre Conference - Bill Rauch
Cut the Cow, Cut the Queen: Problems of Cultural Translation - Virginia Scott
Companies to Keep: Air-Raid Dramas and International Ethical Responsibility in America, 1936–1939 - Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
A Failed Attempt at World Domination: “Advanced Vaudeville,” Financial Panic, and the Dream of a World Trust - Marlis Schweitzer
The Company She Kept: The Radical Activism of Actress Kitty Marion from Piccadilly Circus to Times Square - Christine Woodworth
“The Picture Postcard is a sign of the times”: Theatre Postcards and Modernism - Penny Farfan
A More Aggressive Plantation Play: Henrietta Vinton Davis and John Edward Bruce Collaborate on Our Old Kentucky Home - Thomas Robson
Midwest American Rural Landscapes and the Creation of a Unique Theatre Culture, 1870–1940 - Richard L. Poole
Ibsen’s Unexpected Triumph: Peer Gynt at the Seattle Repertory Playhouse - Victor Holtcamp
Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson, Stage Money: The Business ofthe Professional Theater - Reviewed by Heather A. Beasley
Sarah Werner, ed., New Directions in Renaissance Drama and Performance Studies - Reviewed by Shawna Mefferd Carroll
Jan Balakian, Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein - Reviewed by Miriam Chirico
Laura Bradley, Cooperation and Conflict: GDR Theatre Censorship, 1961–1989 - Reviewed by Stacey Connelly
Robert A. Schanke, Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans - Reviewed by James Fisher
Veronica Kelly, The Empire Actors: Stars of Australasian Costume Drama,1890s–1920s - Reviewed by Richard Fotheringham
Gene A. Plunka, Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity - Reviewed by Elinor Fuchs
Virginia Scott, Women on the Stage in Early Modern France, 1540–1750 - Reviewed by Perry Gethner
Sherry D. Engle, New Women Dramatists in America, 1890–1920, and Alma J. Bennett, American Women Theatre Critics: Biographies and Selected Writings of Twelve Reviewers, 1753–1919 - Reviewed by Helen Huff
Scott Magelssen and Rhona Justice-Malloy, eds., Enacting History - Reviewed by Scott R. Irelan
Edward Forman, Historical Dictionary of French Theater, and Helen Solterer, Medieval Roles for Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic - Reviewed by Felicia Hardison Londré
James F. Wilson, Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance - Reviewed by Adrienne Macki Braconi
Philip Lambert, To Broadway, To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick - Reviewed by Chris M. McCoy
Kevin K. Durand and Mary K. Leigh, eds., The Universe of Oz: Essays on Baum’s Series and Its Progeny - Reviewed by Katharine M. Rogers
Cherise Smith, Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith - Reviewed by Mark Seamon
Madhavi Menon, ed., Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare - Reviewed by Chad Allen Thomas
Douglas S. Harvey, The Theatre of Empire: Frontier Performances in America, 1750–1860 - Reviewed by Aaron M. Tobiason
Felicity Nussbaum, Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater - Reviewed by Sophie Tomlinson
Marla Carlson, Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists - Reviewed by Dan Venning
Charlotte M. Canning and Thomas Postlewait, eds., Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography, and Henry Bial and Scott Magelssen, eds., Theatre Historiography: Critical Interventions - Reviewed by Gary Jay Williams
Laurence Senelick, ed., The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner - Reviewed by Don B. Wilmeth
Books Received
Contributors