Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction | Lisa Jackson-Schebetta with Odai Johnson, Chystyna Dail, and Johnatan 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 | Crystyna 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 Ann 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
Part IV. Book Reviews
Arthur W. Bloom, Edwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History | Reviewed by David Carlyon
Liz Tomlin, Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship: Provocations for Change | Reviewed by Ryan Claycomb
David R. M. Beck, Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago | Reviewed by Meredith Conti
Fintan Walsh, ed., Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance | Reviewed by Jeremy Cornelius
Bethany Wood, Women Adapting: Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen | Reviewed by Jennifer Ewing-Pierce
Patrick Lonergan, Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 | Reviewed by Brice Ezell
Musa Gurnis, Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling: Theater in Post-Reformation London | Reviewed by Thomas Fish
Christian DuComb, Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia | Reviewed by Paul Gagliardi
Noe Montez, Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina | Reviewed by Elizabeth Gray
Yasmin Arshad, Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England | Reviewed by William David Green
Kate Bredeson, Occupying the Stage: The Theatre of May ’68 | Reviewed by Alicia Hernandez Grande
Meredith Conti, Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine | Reviewed by Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Amanda Weldy Boyd, Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography | Reviewed by Rose Hilton
Sharon Marcus, The Drama of Celebrity. | Reviewed by Catherine Quirk
Books Received
Contributors
