A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
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
