...This chapter examines the rise of the multiplex theater in India over the past fifteen years and how it transformed the economies of scale in film production and distribution in the country. In particular, it explores the cultural politics of the new Indian movie theater and its iconic display...

...This chapter narrates how black playwrights in the 1920s inherited the history of tensions between theater and church, as well as the bridges opened to theater by progressive congregations. However, the scripts they wrote reflected a range of social forces, including the changing class dynamics...

...This chapter focuses on the Renaissance faire's “immersion theater” or “promenade theater,” performances in which audience members are watching the drama unfold around them, rather than in front of them. It discusses the faire's influence on the arts, especially in the arena of vernacular music...

...) complicate the statist ideology with an emergent African feminism that disallows synthesis, and shows the critical power of difference. African Personality concept Aidoo Ama Ata blackness black transnationalism difference gender Ghana Hegel G W F Hountondji Paulin National Theater Movement Ghana...

... musical NuyoRican Nuyorican Morrison Tony Isenberg Lauren Laurens John Mulligan Hercules colonialism American neoliberalization theater musical audience race blackness empathy class stereotype capitalism Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musicals, In the Heights and Hamilton...

...Chapter 2 provides an analysis of how poet, performer, and activist Regie Cabico’s Filipino Shuffle challenges the very definition of hip-hop theater by pushing the artistic medium to include works, subjectivities, and communities that do not overtly fall under the parameters...

... and semiautomatic assault rifles. Third, the “theater of control” means people prefer explanations that confer an ability to control a solution. Many in the public believe (or want to believe) that mental health professionals can accurately predict violence, effectively treat and prevent violence, and know when...

... subvert accumulative values while also introducing a Filipino American alternative economy based on reciprocity and non-accumulation. The illiterate character Magno Rubio shows us how to read. accumulation anti accumulation Bulosan Carlos desire epistemology illiteracy Ma Yi Theater Company museums...

... terrorist discourse becoming being with incompleteness master slave dialectic Pedro Pietri theater drama poetry vulgarity rape poverty violence absurdism colonialism Life is a toilet and all we ever do is go from one toilet to the next. We can only pretend to be somewhere else! —Pedro Pietri...

... in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and ’60s, performance art in the ’70s, theater in the ’80s, television in the ’90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book...

...In chapter 2, I shift my attention to Mississippi: the US nation-state’s most iconic geography of black patience. I consider how, even in this bastion of racial terror, the Free Southern Theater used theatrical performance to contest black patience by performing and repurposing plays like Samuel...

... Latinx lynching modernism identity Christie John ethnicity Fellner Astrid González Marcial Johnson David Limon José Bad Modernisms Mao and Walkowitz Darío Rubén modernismo Wollaeger Mark Lomas Laura Martí José Paredes Américo Saldívar Ramón aesthetics Brazil photography theater...

... all been deeply influenced by the activity of Jews. However, this close connection between Jews and entertainment represented a radical departure from traditional Jewish attitudes toward the theater. This chapter explores why, for centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any...

... because the latter are not subject to grammatical regulation. It finally reviews plays by Adrienne Kennedy and Suzan-Lori Parks to argue that, while abstractionism can be effective in theater, restrictions on public access to theatrical performance still make it less effective than print...

... Susan Hagood Taylor Race Changes White Skin Black Face in American Culture Southern Star The Great Depression Divine Comedy Christianity Marita Bonner Randolph Edmonds May Miller Zora Neale Hurston Owen Dodson black humanity African American theater Garland Anderson Big Bethel AME Church...

...This introductory chapter situates Filipino/a performing bodies, specifically Filipino/a theater, within the contexts of nation building and community formation, and highlights the imbrication of Filipino/a racialization with histories of colonialism and imperialism. It tracks the emergence...

... colonial histories. The chapter mentions that Miss Saigon has so famously generated American theater's fraught history of yellowfacing and racist labor practices to attend to the ways in which labor, being, self, and affect are collapsed in the phenomenon of Filipinas in this musical...

...This coda looks at the world premiere staging of Rolling the Rs, R. Zamora Linmark's highly acclaimed novel, produced by Honolulu's Kumu Kahua Theater in November 2008. The play and its consequent production in Hawaii deftly weave together questions of race, performance, imperial...

...This chapter examines the 2008 Texas state raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS) at the Yearning for Zion Ranch and the 1953 raid on Short Creek in Arizona in terms of “crime control theater” (CCT), along with the dangers of relying on such CCT actions. It first...

... Carlos Bulosan, Ma-Yi Theater Company, and Stephanie Syjuco, who have created powerful parodies of an accumulative epistemology that has been naturalized in different sites and spaces (the museum, the art gallery, and the agribusiness farm) even as they also have proposed powerful alternative, anti...