front cover of Theatre History Studies 2012, Vol. 32
Theatre History Studies 2012, Vol. 32
Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
University of Alabama Press, 2012
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
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front cover of Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36
Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36
Edited by Sara Freeman
University of Alabama Press, 2017
A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference.

Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography. Many issues feature a special section curated around a special theme or topic; for 2017 that special section focus on histories of new writing for the theatre.

Featured in THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES 2017, VOLUME 36
  • “Resisting Arlecchino’s Mask: The Case of Marcello Moretti” by Gabrielle Houle
  • “Making Space for Performance: Theatrical-Architectural Nationalism in Postindependence Ghana” by David Afriyie Donkor
  • “Preparing Boys for War: J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan Enlists in World War I’s ‘Great Adventure’” by Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer
  • “Not Just Rock ‘n’ Roll: Chicago Theatre, 1984–1990” by Julie Jackson
  • “New Writing and Theatre History” by Sara Freeman
  • “New Plays in New Tongues: Bilingualism and Immigration at the New Italian Theatre in France” by Matthew McMahan
  • “The Waterloo Summer of the Prince of Wales’s Theatre: New Writing, Old Friends, and Early Realism in the Victorian Theatre” by Shannon Epplett
  • “Chekhov’s Three Sisters: A Proto-Poststructuralist Experiment” by Sarah Wyman
  • “Historicizing Shakesfear and Translating Shakespeare Anew” by Lezlie C. Cross
  • “A New Noble Kinsmen: The Play On! Project and Making New Plays Out of Old” by Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Alex N. Vermillion
  • “Making New Theatre Together: The First Writers’ Group at the Royal Court Theatre and Its Legacy Within the Young Writers’ Programme” by Nicholas Holden
  • “New Writing in a Populist Context: A Play,a Pie, and a Pint” by Deana Nichols
  • “American Playwriting and the Now New” by Todd London
  • The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay: “Black Folk’s Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campus” by La Donna L. Forsgren
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front cover of Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39
Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39
Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
University of Alabama Press, 2020
Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
 
THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES, VOLUME 38
 
PART I: Studies in Theatre History
 
MATTHIEU CHAPMAN
Red, White, and Black: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Structuring of Racial Antagonisms in Early Modern England and the New World
 
MICHAEL CHEMERS AND MICHAEL SELL
Sokyokuchi: Toward a Theory, History, and Practice of Systemic Dramaturgy
 
JEFFREY ULLOM
The Value of Inaction: Unions, Labor Codes, and the Cleveland Play House
 
CHRYSTYNA DAIL
When for “Witches” We Read “Women”: Advocacy and Ageism in Nineteenth-Century Salem Witchcraft Plays
 
MICHAEL DENNIS
The Lost and Found Playwright: Donald Ogden Stewart and the Theatre of Socialist Commitment
 
Part II: HEMISPHERIC HISTORIOGRAPHIES
 
EMILY SAHAKIAN, CHRISTIANA MOLLDREM HARKULICH, AND LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA
Introduction to the Special Section
 
PATRICIA YBARRA
Gestures toward a Hemispheric Theatre History: A Work in Progress
 
ERIC MAYER- GARCÍA
Thinking East and West in Nuestra América: Retracing the Footprints of a Latinx Teatro Brigade in Revolutionary Cuba
 
ANA OLIVAREZ-LEVINSON AND ERIC MAYER-GARCÍA
Intercambio: A Visual History of Nuevo Teatro from the Ana Olivarez-Levinson Photography Collection
 
JESSICA N. PABÓN-COLÓN
Digital Diasporic Tactics for a Decolonized Future: Tweeting in the Wake of #HurricaneMaria
 
LEO CABRANES-GRANT
Performance, Cognition, and the Quest for an Affective Historiography
 
Part III: Essays from the Conference
 
The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, from the 2019 Mid-America Theatre Conference
 
JULIE BURRELL
Reinventing Reconstruction and Scripting Civil Rights in Theodore Ward’s Our Lan’
 
The Robert A. Schanke Honorable Mention Essay, MATC 2019
 
MATTHEW MCMAHAN
 
Projections of Race at the Nouveau Cirque: The Clown Acts of Foottit and Chocolat
 
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