Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Poor "Black" Theatre: Mid-America Theatre Conference Keynote Address, March 7, 2009 -- Hit-and-Run Theatre: The Rise of a New Dramatic Form in Zimbabwe -- Abject No More: Authority and Authenticity in the Theatrical Career of Rose McClendon -- How Does the Show Go On? Theatre for Development in Post-election Kenya -- The Unreported Miracle of Paul Robeson and The Miracle -- Mvett Performance: Retention, Reinvention, and Exaggeration in Remembering the Past -- "You Hip to Buffalo?" The Hidden Heritage of Black Theatre in Western New York -- Masculine Women, Feminist Men: Assertions and Contradictions in Mawugbe's In the Chest of a Woman -- Understanding Paul Robeson's Soviet Experience -- Ota the Other: An African on Display in America -- Oteller and Desdemonum: Defining Nineteenth-CenturyBlackness -- "Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others": Representations of the Progressive Era Middle Class in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Star of Ethiopia -- Knowing Their Place: The Ulster Lyric Theatre, the Lyric Theatre, and the Northern Irish Theatre Scene -- Thinking about the Theatre-and Theatre Critics: An Interview with Robert Brustein, Conducted by Bert Cardullo, New York City, July 2008 -- Book Reviews -- Books Received -- Contributors.