Theatre History Studies 2012, Vol. 32

edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
contributions by Heather A. Beasley, Shawna Mefford Carroll, Miriam Chirico, Stacey Connelly, James Fisher, Richard Fotheringham, Elinor Fuchs, Perry Gethner, Helen Huff, Felicia Hardison Londré, Bill Rauch, Adrienne Macki Braconi, Chris M. McCoy, Katharine M. Rogers, Mark Seamon, Chad Allen Thomas, Aaron M. Tobiason, Sophie Tomlinson, Dan Venning, Gary Jay Williams, Don B Wilmeth, Virginia Scott, Marlis Schweitzer, Scott R. Irelan, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Chris Woodworth, Penny Farfan, Thomas Robson, Richard L. Poole and Victor Holtcamp

University of Alabama Press, 2012
Paper: 978-0-8173-7108-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8630-6

ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Theatre History Studies, currently edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy, is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

Contributors
Penny Farfan / Victor Holtcamp / Lisa Jackson-Schebetta / Richard
L. Poole / Bill Rauch / Thomas Robson / Marlis Schweitzer / Virginia
Scott / Christine Woodworth

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of Illustrations

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

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