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• “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

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
 
ELIZABETH COEN
Hanswurst’s Public: Defending the Comic in the Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Vienna


BRIDGET MCFARLAND
“This Affair of a Theatre”: The Boston Theatre Controversy and the Americanization of the Stage
 
RYAN TVEDT
From Moscow to Simferopol: How the Russian Cubo-Futurists Accessed the Provinces
 
DANIELLA VINITSKI MOONEY
So Long Ago I Can’t Remember: GAle GAtes et al. and the 1990s Immersive Theatre
 
Part II: The Site-Based Theatre Audience Experience: Dramaturgy and Ethics
                —EDITED BY PENELOPE COLE AND RAND HARMON
 
PENELOPE COLE
Site-Based Theatre: The Beginning
 
PENELOPE COLE
Becoming the Mob: Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson’s Coriolan/us
 
SEAN BARTLEY
A Walk in the Park: David Levine’s Private Moment and Ethical Participation in Site-Based Performance
 
DAVID BISAHA
“I Want You to Feel Uncomfortable”: Adapting Participation in A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre
 
COLLEEN RUA
Navigating Neverland and Wonderland: Audience as Spect-Character
 
GUILLERMO AVILES-RODRIGUEZ, PENELOPE COLE, RAND HARMON, AND ERIN B. MEE
Ethics and Site-Based Theatre: A Curated Discussion
 
PART III: The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay from the 1038 Mid-America Theatre Conference
 
MICHELLE GRANSHAW
Inventing the Tramp: The Early Tramp Comic on the Variety Stage
 

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference

Where past and performance converge—scholarship that moves the stage forward.

Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America 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. THS is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and is included in the MLA Directory of Periodicals. THS is indexed in Humanities Index, Humanities Abstracts, Book Review Index, MLA International Bibliography, International Bibliography of Theatre, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, and IBR International Bibliography of Book Reviews. Full texts of essays appear in the databases of both Humanities Abstracts Full Text as well as SIRS.

Along with books reviews on the latest publications from established and emerging voices in the field, this issue of Theatre History Studies contains four sections with two introductions, nine essays, and eleven book reviews total. In the general section, three essays offer an array of insights, methods, and provocations. In the special section titled “Manifestos for Black Theatre, Then and Now,” contributors capture their moment, their ways of working, and their experience as scholars, humans, and citizens in 2023. In part III, Ariel Nereson’s Robert A. Schanke Research Award-winning paper from the 2023 MATC conference examines collective dance histories through the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Continuous Replay. Taken together, volume 43 captures how this journal serves theatre historians as scholars and laborers as they work to attend and tend to their field.
 

CONTRIBUTORS

Daniel E. Atkinson / Ashlyn K. Barnett / David Bisaha / Jocelyn L. Buckner / Julie Burrell / Jordana Cox / Jordan Ealey / Eric M. Glover / Adam Goldstein / Chao Guo / Amy B. Huang / Ariel Nereson / Zachary F. Price / Danielle Rosvally / Letica L. Ridley / Bradford G. Sadler / Richard Sautter / Michael Schweikardt / Margo Skornia / Dennis Sloan / Josh Stenberg / Paul Michael Thomson / Scott Venters / Isaiah Matthew Wooden