Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
JOCELYN L. BUCKNER
PART I
Studies in Theatre History
2 Training Aztlán to Act: Chicanx Theatre, TENAZ, and Theatre as Social Change
DENNIS SLOAN
3 Revisiting Mei Lanfang’s 1930 USA Tour: Triumphs of Curation
CHAO GUO and JOSH STENBERG
4 Robey Theatre Company’s “Bronzeville”: Critical Historical Performance of Afro Asian Political Economy in Los Angeles
ZACHARY F. PRICE
PART II
Manifestos for Black Theatre, Then and Now
5 Introduction to the Special Section
ISAIAH MATTHEW WOODEN and ERIC M. GLOVER
6 “Cake Walks and Culture”: The Black Struggle for Sovereignty at the Dawn of Jim Crow
DANIEL E. ATKINSON
7 “I thought I loved him, [ . . . ] the pale coward”: The Politics of Interracial Love in W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Seven-Up”
PAUL MICHAEL THOMSON
8 When, Where, and “How” We Enter: Early Black Feminist Ruminations on Black Dramaturgies
JORDAN EALEY
9 Histories of the Counter-Future: Theodore Ward, Alice Childress, and the Manifestos of the People’s Theatre
JULIE BURRELL
10 Seen/Scene: Suzan-Lori Parks’s Manifesto for Black People Onstage Revisited
LETICIA L. RIDLEY
PART III
Essay From The Conference
11 The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2023
A Manifesto in Motion: Reimagining Collective Dance Histories Through Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s “Continuous Replay”
ARIEL NERESON
PART IV
Book Reviews
Katrina M. Phillips,
Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History REVIEWED BY ASHLYN KING BARNETT
Josh Langman,
Standby: An Approach to Theatrical Design REVIEWED BY DAVID BISAHA
Ryan Claycomb,
In the Lurch: Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation REVIEWED BY JORDANA COX
Bradley Rogers,
THE SONG IS YOU: Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance REVIEWED BY ADAM GOLDSTEIN
Esther Kim Lee,
Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era REVIEWED BY AMY B. HUANG
Ambereen Dadabhoy and Nedda Mehdizadeh,
Anti-Racist Shakespeare REVIEWED BY DANIELLE ROSVALLY
Jackson R. Bryer, Robert M. Dowling, and Mary C. Hartig, Editors,
Conversations with Sam Shepard REVIEWED BY BRADFORD G. SADLER
Jeffery Kennedy,
Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players REVIEWED BY RICHARD SAUTTER
David Bisaha,
American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism REVIEWED BY MICHAEL SCHWEIKARDT
Meredith Conti and Kevin J. Wetmore. Jr, Editors,
Theatre of the Macabre REVIEWED BY MARGO SKORNIA
Julie Stone Peters,
Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe REVIEWED BY SCOTT VENTERS
Books Received
Contributors