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Introduction by Jocelyn L. Buckner
Part I: Studies in Theatre History
Cultural Objects and Transatlantic Entrepôt Capitalism by Michal Kobialka
"I Want to Save the Flag": Childhood Flag Veneration, American Nationalism, and World War I–Era Entertainment by DeAnna M. Toten Beard
"Performing His Epic Acting": What the Piscator Papers Can Tell Us about H. T. Tsiang's "American Epic," The Hanging on Union Square by Christopher Seiji Berardino
Part II: Queer and Trans Readings of the Theatrical Past
Introduction to the Special Section: Queer and Trans Readings of the Theatrical Past by Kristin Leahey, Special Section Editor, Allison Backus, Associate Editor, and Les Gray, Consultant
Stage (Tr)aces: Asexuality in The Roaring Girl by Anna Maria Broussard
Gender Inclusivity and Spanish Golden Age Theatre by Kailey Henderson
"The Past Lives Here": Split Britches in Conversation with Benjamin Gillespie by Benjamin Gillespie with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw
Made You Look: Staring, Drag, and Trans Performance History from the Jewel Box Revue to Broadway by Bess Rowen
Temporal Ruptures: Time Travel, the Queer Body of Color, and Healing History in the Collaborative Works of Anna Luisa Petrisko by kt shorb
Part III: Essay from the Conference
The Robert A. Schanke Award–Winning Essay, MATC 2024. The Case for Al-Mutayyim: Queer Genealogies and Theatre Historiography by Ali-Reza Mirsajadi
Part IV: Book Reviews
Craig N. Owens, Staging Technology: Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama, reviewed by Mackenzie Bounds
Nicole Hodges Persley, Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance, reviewed by Jordan A. Ealey
Siyuan Liu, Transforming Tradition: The Reform of Chinese Theater in the 1950s and Early 1960s, reviewed by Yizhou Huang
Jordana Cox, Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspapers in New York, reviewed by Macy Jones
Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta, Editors, Shakespeare and Latinidad, reviewed by Marin Laufenberg
Emma Lipton, Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays, reviewed by Carla Neuss
Ryan Donovan, Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity, reviewed by Anne Melissa Potter
Gabriela Cruz, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera, reviewed by Ryan M. Prendergast
Brian Valente-Quinn, Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa, reviewed by Yohann C. Ripert
May Summer Farnsworth, Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico reviewed by Brian Rocha
Katelyn Hale Wood, Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth & Twenty-First Century United States, reviewed by Eleanor Russell
Jisha Menon, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India, reviewed by Sharvari Sastry
Michael D'Allessandro, Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835–75, reviewed by Elaine Hendriks Smith
Noémie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, reviewed by Megan Snell
Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris, Editors, Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century, reviewed by Benjamin P. Stanford
Joseph Cermatori, Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetic of the Theatre, reviewed by Elliott Turley
Books Received
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