Recently added articles from Theatre History Studies:
The Copeland Opera House.(in Shullsburg, Wisconsin)
Jan 01, 2007; Doyle, Brian Leahy ... The scholarship of American popular theatre of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has focused almost exclusively on theatre in New York and other larger U.S. cities. By comparison, very little has been written about the development and history of theatre in America's small ...
The masculine transformations of "Genial" John McCullough.
Jan 01, 2007; Kippola, Karl M. ... The Irish-born "Genial" John McCullough (1832-85) began his theatrical success as a protege of the United States' first great star, Edwin Forrest, whose passionate bombast marked a uniquely American style. While McCullough's imitation of Forrest might have been a pale one, his great ...
The Master and the Mademoiselle: gender secrets in plain sight in Antebellum performance.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Vey, Shauna ... On February 25, 1860, the New York Clipper ran a piece about the circus performer known as Ella Zoyara: "He was unfortunate enough to lose her balance while performing his bare back act, and before she could recover himself, down she went, sustaining an injury to one of his feet, which ...
The diasporic imagination: Introduction to Essays by Peter Reed, Adrienne C. Macki, and Christina S. McMahon.
Jan 01, 2007; Nathans, Heather S. ... During 2004 and 2005 I had the great privilege and pleasure of working with an exciting group of scholars interested in exploring the concept and boundaries of the diasporic imagination. The three essays that follow grew out of a year-long collaboration between colleagues from institutions ...
"There was no resisting John Canoe": circum-Atlantic transracial performance.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Reed, Peter ... John-Canoe is considered not merely as a person of material consequence, but one whose presence is absolutely indispensable .... There was no resisting John Canoe. --MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS, Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies (1816, published 1845) ...
"Talking B(l)ack": construction of gender and race in the Plays of Eulalie Spence.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Macki, Adrienne C. ... Every dialect, every language, is a way of thinking. To speak means to assume a culture. --FRANTZ FANON, Black Skin, White Masks Although Eulalie Spence was writing at the same time as other prominent black playwrights and authors, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale ...
Embodying diaspora: ambivalence and utopia in contemporary Cape Verdean theatre.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2007; McMahon, Christina S. ... In September 2004, the Cape Verdean theatre group Dionisios performed Urn suco natural for the country's annual Mindelact International Theatre Festival. The piece commingled a traditional Cape Verdean dance form, batuque, with Western ballet, and enacted the Cape Verde Islands' ambivalent ...
The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Crespy, David A. ... The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee. Edited by Stephen Bottoms. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 290 pp. $25.99 paperback. Stretching My Mind. By Edward Albee. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005. 294 pp. $25.00 cloth. With the recent publication of ...
No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Londre, Felicia Hardison ... No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous. By Tray S. D. New York: Faber and Faber, 2005. 328 pp. $25.00 cloth. Enthusiasm and humor can do a lot to enliven the dustiest historical subject. This book has enthusiasm and humor in abundance, even as the ...
Bernard Shaw: A Life.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; O'Hara, Michael M. ... Bernard Shaw: A Life. By A. M. Gibbs. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 554 pp. $39.95 cloth. Bernard Shaw was not only one of the most prolific and controversial playwrights of the modern era but also one of the most visible. His very public life started as a ...
Theatre for Children: Fifteen Classical Plays.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Leahey, Kristin ... Theatre for Children: Fifteen Classical Plays. Edited by Coleman A. Jennings. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. xxxii + 512 pp. $29.95 cloth. In Theatre for Children: Fifteen Classic Plays, editor Coleman A. Jennings has assembled fifteen entertaining and imaginative pieces ...
Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920.(The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Chansky, Dorothy ... Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920. By Melanie Dawson. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. x + 257 pp. $39.75 cloth. The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance. By Charlotte ...
Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Baker, Vanessa ... Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words. By Julia A. Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 312 pp. $75.00 cloth. Among recent historical studies of modernism in the American theatre, Julia Walker's careful rereading is ...
High Drama: Colorado's Historic Theatres.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Barile, Mary ... High Drama: Colorado's Historic Theatres. By Daniel and Beth R. Barrett. Montrose, Colo.: Western Reflections Publishing Company, 2005. 208 pp. $19.95 cloth. Ah, the old West. First explorers, then mountain men, miners, ministers, ranchers, and farmers. Soiled doves and ...
Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Carney, Brian T. ... Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage. By Russ McDonald. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xx + 172 pp. $26.95 cloth. In April 2002, Russ McDonald delivered the Averitt Lectures at Georgia State University on the topic ...
Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Krasner, David ... Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895. By Jill Lane. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xi + 274 pp. $50.00 cloth. Blackface Cuba is an examination of nineteenth-century Cuban society and theatre. Cuba at the time experienced an uneasy relationship with racial ...
The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Wolf, Stacy ... The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era. Edited by Billy J. Harbin, Kim Marra, and Robert A. Schanke. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 399 PP. $75.00 cloth. "Sexuality ...
Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Trotter, Mary ... Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience. By Neil Blackadder. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. xvii + 228 pp. $76.95 cloth. In Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience, Neil Blackadder takes a novel approach to anatomizing the ...
The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Sarlos, Robert K. ... The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. By Brenda Murphy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix + 28a pp. $85.00 cloth. Brenda Murphy's new book is a welcome and sophisticated addition to the scholarship on the Provincetown Players. By tying the group ...
A Student Guide to Play Analysis.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Sinnett, Kate ... A Student Guide to Play Analysis. By David Rush. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006.299 pp. $28.50 paper. As its title implies, David Rush's A Student Guide to Play Analysis is intended as a textbook for undergraduate courses in script analysis or modern drama ....