Theatre History Studies 2011 : Volume 31.

List of Illustrations; In Memoriam: Vera Mowry Roberts (1913-2010) -- Milly S. Barranger; Class Act(resses): How Depression-Era Stage Actresses Utilized Conflicting Gender Ideals to Benefit Their Community -- Kelly Carolyn Gordon; Storytelling, Chiggers, and the Bible Belt: The Georgia Experiment as the Public Face of the Federal Theatre Project -- Elizabeth Osborne; Shakespearean Celebrity in America: The Strange Performative Afterlife of George Frederick Cooke -- Rick Bowers; Burns Mantle and the American Theatregoing Public -- Dorothy Chansky.

Weeki Wachee Girls and Buccaneer Boys: The Evolution of Mermaids, Gender, and "Man versus Nature" Tourism -- Jennifer A. KokaiJulia Marlowe's Imogen: Modern Identity, Victorian Style -- Patty S. Derrick; Book Reviews; Heather S. Nathans, Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the Veil of Black -- Reviewed by Rosemarie K. Bank; Kerry Powell, Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde -- Reviewed by Karen C. Blansfield; David Savran, Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Makingof the New Middle Class -- Reviewed by Dorothy Chansky.

Irene G. Dash, Shakespeare and the Ameri can Musical -- Reviewed by Tracey Elaine ChessumRakesh H. Solomon, Albee in Performance, and Anne Paolucci, Edward Albee (The Later Plays) -- Reviewed by David A. Crespy; Judith Barlow, Women Writers of the Provincetown Players -- Reviewed by Sherry Engle; Jin Jiang, Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth Century Shanghai -- Reviewed by Kathy Foley; DeAnna M. Toten Beard, Sheldon Cheney's "Theatre Arts Magazine": Promoting a Modern Ameri can Theatre, 1916-1921 -- Reviewed by Eileen Herrmann- Miller.

Mark Cosdon, The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833-1931 -- Reviewed by Susan KattwinkelMichael Ragussis, Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain -- Reviewed by Heather S. Nathans; Pamela Cobrin, From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broad way: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage, 1880-1927 -- Reviewed by Laura M. Nelson; Joseph Litvak, The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture -- Reviewed by Brian Neve.

John P. Harrington, ed., Irish Theatre in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora -- Reviewed by Nelson O'Ceallaigh RitschelOscar Brockett, Margaret Mitchell, and Linda Hardberger, Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States -- Reviewed by Van Santvoord; Mechele Leon, Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife -- Reviewed by Michael Spingler; Marlis Schweitzer, When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture -- Reviewed by Monica Stufft.

Catherine A. Schuler, Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia -- Reviewed by Ryan Tvedt.

"Theatre History Studies" is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre. THS is a member.

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