Contents
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Introduction - Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
Theatre History, Theatrical Mimesis, and the Myth of the Abydos Passion Play - Alan Sikes
William Alexander Leidesdorff and the American 1847: Minstrelsy and Race in California Before the Gold Rush - Andrew Gibb
Antebellum Touring and the Culture of Deception: The Case of Master Diamond - Nicole Berkin
Performing the Polish-American Patriot: Civic Performance and Hyphenated Identity in World War I Chicago - Megan E. Geigner
New Paths to Representation; or, How Under the Cherokee Moon Broke the Outdoor Historical Drama Mold - Heidi L. Nees
Valleri J. Hohman, Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891–1933 - Reviewed by Sharon Marie Carnicke
Elizabeth A. Osborne, Staging the People: Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project - Reviewed by Johnathan Chambers
Eli Rozik, Comedy: A Critical Introduction - Reviewed by Miriam Chirico
Jill A. Sullivan, The Politics of the Pantomime: Regional Identity in the Theatre, 1860–1900 - Reviewed by Meredith Conti
Barbara Ozieblo and Noelia Hernando-Real, eds., Performing Gender Violence: Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists - Reviewed by Jerry Dickey
Rebecca Schneider, Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment - Reviewed by Julia Fawcett
Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz, Ramón Espejo Romero, and Bernardo Muñoz Martinez, eds., Violence in American Drama: Essays on Its Staging, Meanings and Effects - Reviewed by Iris Fischer
Stacy Wolf, Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical - Reviewed by Brett D. Johnson
Noelia Hernando-Real, Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell - Reviewed by Emeline Jouve
Keith Garebian, The Making of Cabaret - Reviewed by Valerie Joyce
Ruth Feldstein, How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement - Reviewed by Keith Byron Kirk
Helen Smith, There’s a Place for Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein - Reviewed by Jenna L. Kubly
Scott Magelssen, Simming: Participatory Theatre and the Making of Meaning - Reviewed by Martha S. Lomonaco
Susan Bennett, Theatre and Museums - Reviewed by Scott Magelssen
Simon C. Estok, Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia - Reviewed by Theresa J. May
Alastair Brotchie, Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life - Reviewed by Lance Mekeel
Elizabeth C. Ramírez and Catherine Casiano, eds., La Voz Latina: Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces by Latinas - Reviewed by Beliza Torres Narvaez
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights - Reviewed by Tavia Nyong'o
Theresa Robbins Dudeck, Keith Johnstone: A Critical Biography - Reviewed by Kristen Rogers
Rosemary Malague, An Actress Prepares: Women and “the Method” - Reviewed by Kristen Rogers
Iris Smith Fischer, Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theater in the 1970s - Reviewed by Cindy Rosenthal
Stuart J. Hecht, Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical - Reviewed by Judith Sebesta
Hanay Geiogamah, Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook - Reviewed by Teresa Stankiewicz
Philip C. Kolin, ed., Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays on the Plays and Other Works - Reviewed by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Brandi Wilkins Catanese, The Problem of the Color[blind}: Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance - Reviewed by Harvey Young
Books Received
Contributors