Theatre History Studies 2021, Volume 40

Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is Theater Department Chair and associate professor of history & theater at Skidmore College. She is President of the American Theatre and Drama Society.

Introduction—LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELL
PART I STUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORY
Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason—ODAI JOHNSON
Caricatured, Marginalized,and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia’s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939—JONATHAN SHANDELL
Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate—SCOTT PROUDFIT
Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance—ANGELA K. AHLGREN
PART II WITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCE
Editor’s Introduction to the Special Section Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances—CHRYSTYNA DAIL
To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft—JANE BARNETTE
Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare’s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter’s Tale—JESSICA HOLT
Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom—MAMATA SENGUPTA
(Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba’s Heroine Journey in Wicked—REBECCA K. HAMMONDS
Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell—DAVID BISAHA
PART III Essay from the Conference
The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020 New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s—LINDSEY MANTOAN