Description

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference.

Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography. Many issues feature a special section curated around a special theme or topic; for 2017 that special section focus on histories of new writing for the theatre.

Featured in THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES 2017, VOLUME 36

"Resisting Arlecchino's Mask: The Case of Marcello Moretti" by Gabrielle Houle
"Making Space for Performance: Theatrical-Architectural Nationalism in Postindependence Ghana" by David Afriyie Donkor
"Preparing Boys for War: J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan Enlists in World War I's 'Great Adventure'" by Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer
"Not Just Rock 'n' Roll: Chicago Theatre, 1984-1990" by Julie Jackson
"New Writing and Theatre History" by Sara Freeman
"New Plays in New Tongues: Bilingualism and Immigration at the New Italian Theatre in France" by Matthew McMahan
"The Waterloo Summer of the Prince of Wales's Theatre: New Writing, Old Friends, and Early Realism in the Victorian Theatre" by Shannon Epplett
"Chekhov's Three Sisters: A Proto-Poststructuralist Experiment" by Sarah Wyman
"Historicizing Shakesfear and Translating Shakespeare Anew" by Lezlie C. Cross
"A New Noble Kinsmen: The Play On! Project and Making New Plays Out of Old" by Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Alex N. Vermillion
"Making New Theatre Together: The First Writers' Group at the Royal Court Theatre and Its Legacy Within the Young Writers' Programme" by Nicholas Holden
"New Writing in a Populist Context: A Play, a Pie, and a Pint" by Deana Nichols
"American Playwriting and the Now New" by Todd London
The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay: "Black Folk's Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campus" by La Donna L. Forsgren