Performing New Lives: Prison Theatre -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "To Know My Deed": Finding Salvation through Shakespeare -- 3. Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing: Drama in the Big House -- 4. 59 Places: Dance/Theatre in the Hampshire Jail -- 5. Time In: Transforming Identity Inside and Out -- 6. The Buckle on the Bible Belt -- 7. From the Meanest Creature: Theatre as a Vehicle for Change -- 8. Faith, Hope, and "Sweet Love Re-Membered": "Restoration" Theatre in Kansas Prisons -- 9. Fabulous Females: Secrets,Stories, and Hope: Guarding and Guiding Girls Beyond the Barbed Wire Fence -- 10. Living with Life: The Theater of Witness as a Model of Healing and Redemption -- 11. Prison Theatre and the Promise of Reintegration -- 12. Sculpting Empowerment: Theatre in a Juvenile Facility and Beyond -- 13. The Keeper of the Keys -- 14. Revisiting Sacred Spaces -- 15. The Inmates, the Actors, the Characters, the Audience, and the Poet Are of Imagination All Compact -- 16. "Their Minds Transfigured So Together": Imaginative Transformation and Transcendence in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 17. A Conversation with the Authors: Prison Theatre Artists in Dialogue -- The Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author Index.