Contents -- List of Illustrations -- An Uncommon Woman: An Interview with Wendy Wasserstein -- Thresholds of Pain in Performance: Tormentingt he Actor and Audience -- Designing American Modernity: David Belasco's The Governor's Lady and Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife -- A Historiography of Informed Imagination: A (Hi)Story Drawn fromthe Correspondence of Annie Russell and Faith Baldwin -- The Miseries of History: Shakespearian Extremity as Cautionary Tale on the Restoration Stage -- The Final Straw: Producing James Purdy at the Trinity Square Rep -- Disappearing Frontiers and the National Stage: Placing the Portland Federal Theatre Project -- "Can't Someone Find Him a Stimulant?" The Treatment of Prohibitionon the American Stage, 1920-1933 -- The Tricks of Lun: Mimesis and Mimicry in John Rich's Performance and Conception of Pantomimes -- Sensational with the Greeks and Daring with Shakespeare but Not So Sure about Shaw: Performance of George Bernard Shaw at Terence Gray's Festival Theatre, Cambridge, England, 1926-1935 -- Book Reviews -- Robert A. Schanke, ed., Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy -- Barbara Ozieblo and Jerry Dickey, Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell -- David Krasner, ed., Theatre in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology -- Hazel Waters, Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representations of Slavery and the Black Character -- Romeo Castellucci, Joe Kelleher, Nicholas Ridout, Claudia Castellucci, and Chiara Guidi, The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio -- Tice L. Miller, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Paige Reynolds, Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle -- Rhonda Garelick, Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism.

Paul Fortunato, Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde -- Zander Brietzke, American Drama in the Age of Film -- William W. Demastes and Iris Smith Fischer, eds., Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance -- John Patrick Diggins, Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire under Democracy -- Harriet Hyman Alonso, Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War -- Jason Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity inthe Colonial and Revolutionary American Theatre -- Benjamin Harshav -- Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav, trans.,The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution -- Laurence Senelick, Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater -- Esther Kim Lee, A History of Asian American Theatre -- Judith Curtis, "Divine Thalie": The Career of Jeanne Quinault -- Philip C. Kolin, ed., Contemporary African American Women Playwrights -- Books Received -- Contributors.