Recently added articles from Theatre History Studies:
Keynote speech from the twenty-eighth mid-America theatre conference, changing theatrical landscapes: mapping new directions in history, pedagogy, and practice in the twenty-first century.
Jan 01, 2008; ... I'm inspired by the boldness of the challenge of this conference's theme. As I thought about it while preparing this talk, I even began to wax creative and found myself becoming excited over the possibilities. "Mapping new directions" offers the opportunity to reevaluate, to extend the ...
Between the lines: editing the notebooks of Tennessee Williams.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In 1997, John Eastman, the executor of the Tennessee Williams Estate, asked me if I would be willing to look at the notebooks of Tennessee Williams and give him my thoughts as to whether or not they should be published. Two weeks later a box arrived containing photocopies of the ...
Research and performance: a roundtable on the future of the archive.
Jan 01, 2008; ... The American Society for Theatre Research's Fiftieth-Anniversary Conference in Chicago in November 2006 chose as its theme "'America,' 'Society,' 'Theatre,' and 'Research.'" For the plenary on research, conference chair Shannon Jackson proposed a special roundtable on the state of the ...
Performance in the archives.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... On Christmas Eve in 2001, New York City's outgoing mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, signed an agreement with city authorities that allowed him unprecedented control over his public records. Giuliani convinced the commissioner of Records and Information Services to allow him to box up his mayoral ...
Performing arts archives: dynamic entities complementing and supporting scholarship and creativity.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Role of Archives in Democratic Societies In the course of history, whenever political and social oppression take place, many records that document the past and the rights of countries or individuals are destroyed in order to make essential evidence unavailable to anyone who ...
eBay, Wikipedia, and the future of the footnote.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... This essay began as an attempt to explore the disconnect I perceived between the theoretical innovations in historiography that have occurred in theatre scholarship over the past few decades and the traditional scholarly structures in which most of us still deliver that thinking in print ...
Period rush: affective transfers in recent queer art and performance.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In Terry Zwigoff's 2001 film, Ghost World, the malcontent Enid Coleslaw is firmly ensconced in the post-adolescent malaise her best friend, Rebecca, wants to grow out of. Tension erupts when Rebecca suggests they "pretend" to be yuppies. Enid acts out by dyeing her hair green and sporting ...
Goon, warrior, communitarian, and mythos: the Lincoln Legend of dramatic literature and live performance.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Roy Basler offers a noteworthy if not comprehensive distinction between historicized Lincoln biographical narratives and the Lincoln Legend, postulating that the former "is a catalogue of detached facts, which have no other connection than time, place, circumstance, and cause, and effect," ...
Ole Olson and companions as others: Swedish-dialect characters and the question of Scandinavian acculturation.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Since the late 1970s, extensive research has focused on ethnic stereotypes in American popular theatre and vaudeville of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--especially studies on German (commonly called Dutch), Irish, Hebrew, and Negro dialect humor. (1) As a product, in part, of ...
Games with ghosts in Muller's Explosion of a Memory: a study of pre-ideology in the Muller-Wilson collaboration.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... That's how it was for me working with Bob [Wilson] .... Always it was like playing games. HEINER MULLER When discussing his experimental drama Explosion of a Memory, the East German playwright Heiner Muller remarked, with characteristic irony, that he had written the ...
On the emergence of European avant-garde theatre.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction: A Problem of Theatre Historiography When historians of theatre examine bibliographical sources concerning the genesis of European avant-garde theatre, they usually find exceptional works on the major artistic movements, including monographs on artists as well as ...
The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930. By Felicia Hardison Londre. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. 327 pp. $34.95 cloth. It is rare, even for theatre historians, to pick up a theatre history book and ...
Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937. By Jonathan L. Chambers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. xv + 268 pp. $55.00 cloth. Arguably the most notable American playwright of the literary left of the 1920s ...
Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919. By Weldon B. Durham. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. viii + 219 pp. $35.00 paper. As the United States prepared in 1917 to enter World War I--a time of turmoil and often chaos--the War Department's Commission on Training ...
Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers. By Arthur Frank Wertheim. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. 332 pp. $75.00 cloth. Although the history of American vaudeville has been reasonably well examined, no work has ...
Susan Glaspell and the Anxiety of Expression.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Susan Glaspell and the Anxiety of Expression. By Kristina Hinz-Bode. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. 292 pp. $45.00 cloth. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), Pulitzer Prize winner, playwright, and novelist, was a founding member of the Provincetown Players and undoubtedly a ...
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910. By Daphne A. Brooks. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. 475 PP. $25.95 paper. Daphne Brooks's Bodies in Dissent offers a dynamic exploration of the complex performance of race in ...
The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. Edited and with an introduction by Judith L. Stephens. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 195 PP. $40.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Judith L. Stephens carefully assembles all ...
Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music. By Philip Auslander. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. xii + 260 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. With Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music, Philip Auslander has solidified ...
Notebooks.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Notebooks. By Tennessee Williams. Edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xxvii + 828 pp. $40.00 cloth. In 1936, Tennessee Williams began writing a journal that eventually filled thirty composition books, ledgers, and spiral tablets. Although ...