List of Illustrations Introduction by Jocelyn L. Buckner Part I: Studies in Theatre History Cultural Objects and Transatlantic Entrepôt Capitalism by Michal Kobialka "I Want to Save the Flag": Childhood Flag Veneration, American Nationalism, and World War I-Era Entertainment by DeAnna M. Toten Beard "Performing His Epic Acting": What the Piscator Papers Can Tell Us about H. T. Tsiang's "American Epic," The Hanging on Union Square by Christopher Seiji Berardino Part II: Queer and Trans Readings of the Theatrical Past Introduction to the Special Section: Queer and Trans Readings of the Theatrical Past by Kristin Leahey, Special Section Editor, Allison Backus, Associate Editor, and Les Gray, Consultant Stage (Tr)aces: Asexuality in The Roaring Girl by Anna Maria Broussard Gender Inclusivity and Spanish Golden Age Theatre by Kailey Henderson "The Past Lives Here": Split Britches in Conversation with Benjamin Gillespie by Benjamin Gillespie with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw Made You Look: Staring, Drag, and Trans Performance History from the Jewel Box Revue to Broadway by Bess Rowen Temporal Ruptures: Time Travel, the Queer Body of Color, and Healing History in the Collaborative Works of Anna Luisa Petrisko by kt shorb Part III: Essay from the Conference The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2024. The Case for Al-Mutayyim : Queer Genealogies and Theatre Historiography by Ali-Reza Mirsajadi Part IV: Book Reviews Craig N. Owens, Staging Technology: Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama , reviewed by Mackenzie Bounds Nicole Hodges Persley, Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance , reviewed by Jordan A.

Ealey Siyuan Liu, Transforming Tradition: The Reform of Chinese Theater in the 1950s and Early 1960s , reviewed by Yizhou Huang Jordana Cox, Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspapers in New York , reviewed by Macy Jones Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta, Editors, Shakespeare and Latinidad , reviewed by Marin Laufenberg Emma Lipton, Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays , reviewed by Carla Neuss Ryan Donovan, Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity , reviewed by Anne Melissa Potter Gabriela Cruz, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera , reviewed by Ryan M. Prendergast Brian Valente-Quinn, Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa , reviewed by Yohann C. Ripert May Summer Farnsworth, Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico reviewed by Brian Rocha Katelyn Hale Wood, Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth & Twenty-First Century United States , reviewed by Eleanor Russell Jisha Menon, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India , reviewed by Sharvari Sastry Michael D'Allessandro, Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75 , reviewed by Elaine Hendriks Smith Noémie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race , reviewed by Megan Snell Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris, Editors, Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century , reviewed by Benjamin P. Stanford Joseph Cermatori, Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetic of the Theatre , reviewed by Elliott Turley Books Received Contributors.