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Introduction by Sara Freeman

Part I: Studies in Theatre History

Hanswurst’s Public: Defending the Comic in the Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Vienna by Elizabeth Coen

“This Affair of a Theatre”: The Boston Theatre Controversy and the Americanization of the Stage by Bridget McFarland

From Moscow to Simferopol: How the Russian Cubo-Futurists Accessed the Provinces by Ryan Tvedt

So Long Ago I Can’t Remember: GAle GAtes et al. and the 1990s Immersive Theatre by Daniella Vinitski Mooney

Part II: The Site-Based Theatre Audience Experience: Dramaturgy and Ethics edited by Penelope Cole and Rand Harmon

Site-Based Theatre: The Beginning by Penelope Cole

Becoming the Mob: Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson’s Coriolan/us by Penelope Cole

A Walk in the Park: David Levine’s Private Moment and Ethical Participation in Site-Based Performance by Sean Bartley

“I Want You to Feel Uncomfortable”: Adapting Participation in A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre by David Bisaha

Navigating Neverland and Wonderland: Audience as Spect-Character by Colleen Rua

Ethics and Site-Based Theatre: A Curated Discussion by Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez, Penelope Cole, Rand Harmon, and Erin B. Mee

Part III: The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay from the 2018 Mid-America Theatre Conference

Inventing the Tramp: The Early Tramp Comic on the Variety Stage by Michelle Granshaw

Part IV: Book Reviews

Jonathan M. Hess, Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage Reviewed by Joseph R. D’Ambrosi

Travis Curtright, Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons Reviewed by James DeMasi

George Rodosthenous, The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen: Critical Approaches from Snow White to Frozen Reviewed by Kathryn Edney

Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Traveler, There Is No Road: Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas Reviewed by Andrew Gibb

David A. Crespy, Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems Reviewed by Jeff Grace

Jocelyn L. Buckner, A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage Reviewed by Stefanie A. Jones

Gilliam M. Rodger, Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage Reviewed by Franklin J. Lasik

Ellen R. Welch, A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France Reviewed by Felicia Hardison Londré

Adrian Wright, Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop Reviewed by Rae Mansfield

David Palmer, Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama Reviewed by Charissa Menefee

Jane Barnette, Adapturgy: The Dramaturg’s Art and Theatrical Adaptation Reviewed by Maria Mytilinaki Kennedy

Dominic Symonds, Broadway Rhythm: Imaging the City in Song Reviewed by Ellen M. Peck

Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty, Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art: The British Community Arts Movement Reviewed by Ben Phelan

Jackson R. Bryer, Judith P. Hallett, and Edyta K. Oczkowicz, Thornton Wilder in Collaboration: Collected Essays on His Drama and Fiction Reviewed by Scott Proudfit

Moisés Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams et al., Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project’s Process of Devising Theater Reviewed by Richard Sautter

Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva and Scott Proudfit, Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance: The Rise of Women Theatre Artists in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Reviewed by Francesca Spedalieri

Books Received

Contributors