Theatre History Studies 2021, Volume 40

Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is Theater Department Chair and associate professor of history & theater at Skidmore College. She is President of the American Theatre and Drama Society.

• Introduction—LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELLPART I STUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORYUn-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason—ODAI JOHNSONCaricatured, Marginalized,and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia’s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939—JONATHAN SHANDELLStop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate—SCOTT PROUDFITAsia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance—ANGELA K. AHLGRENPART II WITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCEEditor’s Introduction to the Special Section Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances—CHRYSTYNA DAILTo Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft—JANE BARNETTENothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare’s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter’s Tale—JESSICA HOLTOf Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom—MAMATA SENGUPTA(Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba’s Heroine Journey in Wicked—REBECCA K. HAMMONDSImmersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell—DAVID BISAHAPART III Essay from the ConferenceThe Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020 New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s—LINDSEY MANTOAN