Contents -- List of Illustrations -- In Memoriam: Vera Mowry Roberts (1913-2010) - Milly S. Barranger -- Class Act(resses): How Depression-Era Stage Actresses Utilized Conflicting Gender Ideals to Benefit Their Community - Kelly Carolyn Gordon -- Storytelling, Chiggers, and the Bible Belt: The Georgia Experiment as the Public Face of the Federal Theatre Project - Elizabeth Osborne -- Shakespearean Celebrity in America: The Strange Performative Afterlife of George Frederick Cooke - Rick Bowers -- Burns Mantle and the American Theatregoing Public - Dorothy Chansky -- Weeki Wachee Girls and Buccaneer Boys: The Evolution of Mermaids, Gender, and "Man versus Nature" Tourism - Jennifer A. Kokai -- Julia Marlowe's Imogen: Modern Identity, Victorian Style - Patty S. Derrick -- Book Reviews -- Heather S. Nathans, Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the Veil of Black - Reviewed by Rosemarie K. Bank -- Kerry Powell, Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde - Reviewed by Karen C. Blansfield -- David Savran, Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Makingof the New Middle Class - Reviewed by Dorothy Chansky -- Irene G. Dash, Shakespeare and the Ameri can Musical - Reviewed by Tracey Elaine Chessum -- Rakesh H. Solomon, Albee in Performance, and Anne Paolucci, Edward Albee (The Later Plays) - Reviewed by David A. Crespy -- Judith Barlow, Women Writers of the Provincetown Players - Reviewed by Sherry Engle -- Jin Jiang, Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth Century Shanghai - Reviewed by Kathy Foley -- DeAnna M. Toten Beard, Sheldon Cheney's "Theatre Arts Magazine": Promoting a Modern Ameri can Theatre, 1916-1921 - Reviewed by Eileen Herrmann- Miller -- Mark Cosdon, The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833-1931 - Reviewed by Susan Kattwinkel.

Michael Ragussis, Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain - Reviewed by Heather S. Nathans -- Pamela Cobrin, From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broad way: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage, 1880-1927 - Reviewed by Laura M. Nelson -- Joseph Litvak, The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture - Reviewed by Brian Neve -- John P. Harrington, ed., Irish Theatre in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora - Reviewed by Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel -- Oscar Brockett, Margaret Mitchell, and Linda Hardberger, Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States - Reviewed by Van Santvoord -- Mechele Leon, Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife - Reviewed by Michael Spingler -- Marlis Schweitzer, When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture - Reviewed by Monica Stufft -- Catherine A. Schuler, Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia - Reviewed by Ryan Tvedt -- Scott L. Newstock and Ayanna Thompson, eds., Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance - Reviewed by Dan Venning -- Paul Hammond, The Strangeness of Tragedy - Reviewed by Andrew W. White -- Monica L. Miller, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity - Reviewed by James Wilson -- Scott R. Irelan, Anne Fletcher, and Julie Felise Dubiner, The Processof Dramaturgy: A Handbook - Reviewed by Ronald J . Zank -- Books Received -- Contributors.