CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- The Copeland Opera House -- The Masculine Transformations of "Genial" John McCullough -- The Master and the Mademoiselle: Gender Secrets in Plain Sight in Antebellum Performance -- The Diasporic Imagination: Introduction to Essays by Peter Reed, Adrienne C. Macki, and Christina S. McMahon -- "There Was No Resisting John Canoe":Circum-Atlantic Transracial Performance -- "Talking B(l)ack": Construction of Gender and Race in the Plays of Eulalie Spence -- Employing Diaspora: Ambivalence and Utopia in Contemporary Cape Verdean Theatre -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Stephen Bottoms, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee and Edward Albee, Stretching My Mind -- Trav S. D., No Applause-Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous -- A. M. Gibbs, Bernard Shaw: A Life -- Coleman A. Jennings, ed., Theatre for Children: Fifteen Classical Plays -- Melanie Dawson, Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 andCharlotte Canning, The Most American Thing in America:Circuit Chautauqua as Performance -- Julia A. Walker, Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words -- Daniel and Beth R. Barrett, High Drama: Colorado's Historic Theatres -- Russ McDonald, Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage -- Jill Lane, Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 -- Billy J. Harbin, Kim Marra, and Robert A. Schanke, eds. The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era -- Neil Blackadder, Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience -- Brenda Murphy, The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity -- David Rush, A Student Guide to Play Analysis -- Felicia Hardison Londré, Words at Play: Creative Writing and Dramaturgy.

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