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 : i?1/2Resisting Arlecchino’s Mask: The Case of Marcello Morettii?½ by Gabrielle Houle i?1/2Making Space for Performance: Theatrical-Architectural Nationalism in Postindependence Ghanai?½ by David Afriyie Donkor i?1/2Preparing Boys for War: J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan Enlists in World War I’s aEURO~Great Adventure'i?½ by Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer i?1/2Not Just Rock aEURO~n’ Roll: Chicago Theatre, 1984aEURO 1990i?½ by Julie Jackson i?1/2New Writing and Theatre Historyi?½ by Sara Freeman i?1/2New Plays in New Tongues: Bilingualism and Immigration at the New Italian Theatre in Francei?½ by Matthew McMahan i?1/2The Waterloo Summer of the Prince of Wales’s Theatre: New Writing, Old Friends, and Early Realism in the Victorian Theatrei?½ by Shannon Epplett i?1/2Chekhov’s Three Sisters: A Proto-Poststructuralist Experimenti?½ by Sarah Wyman i?1/2Historicizing Shakesfear and Translating Shakespeare Anewi?½ by Lezlie C. Cross i?1/2A New Noble Kinsmen: The Play On! Project and Making New Plays Out of Oldi?½ by Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Alex N. Vermillion i?1/2Making New Theatre Together: The First Writers’ Group at the Royal Court Theatre and Its Legacy Within the Young Writers’ Programmei?½ by Nicholas Holden i?1/2New Writing in a Populist Context: A Play,a Pie, and a Pinti?½ by Deana Nichols i?1/2American Playwriting and the Now Newi?½ by Todd London The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay: i?1/2Black Folk’s Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campusi?½ by La Donna L. Forsgren
