Nations Speaking-Indigenous Performances Across the Americas Spring 2007 Letter from the Editor Carolyn D. Roark Feature: Broadway (Un)Bound: Lynn Riggs’s The Cherokee Night Jaye Darby Feature: Traces of Hope: Native Authorship in the Missionary Theatre of New Spain George Panaghi Feature: Dancers from Beginning to End: Native-Based Modern Dance and the Storytelling Dance-Drama of Daystar/Rosalie Jones Julie Pearson-Little Thunder
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Between the Sacred and Profane: Medieval and Renaissance Performance Fall 2006 Letter From the Editor Editorial: Reclaiming the “Sacred” from the “Profane” K. Sarah-Jane Murray & Sinda K. Vanderpool Feature: “I Was Never Bard ‘Ere”: Creation and Charity in the Wakefield Play of Noah Veronica Alfano Abstract: Given the didactic aims of many medieval plays, it is somewhat surprising
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Harmonies of the Soul Spring 2006 Letter from the Editor Editorial: Purpose and Parody in “Religious” Musical Theatre Judith Sebesta Feature: Urinetown, September 11, and the Carnivalesque Erica Milkovich Abstract: Taking into account the medieval carnivalesque structure and lower-body humor present in Urinetown, this article argues that the musical’s popularity during the post-September 11 Broadway season can be attributed
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Comedy and the Spirit Fall 2005 Letter To The Editor Editorial: The Spirit of Comedy Gary Maciag Abstract: It might seem odd at first to consider the comic and the spirit having any relationship at all in an era when religion and its practices have become deadly serious. Still, luckily, laughter has not been banished from our
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Faith, Violence, and Performance Fall 2005 Letter From The Editor Editorial: Holy War Theatres Mark Pizzato Abstract:“Every since 9/11…” This notion has come to dominate or current consciousness. Perhaps future historians will call this period not to the postmodern or postmodern, but the “millennial period.” This editorial considers the performative dimensions of war as well as
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Inaugural Issue Fall 2004 Editorial: Faith and Performance: The World’s Oldest Couple Marvin Carlson Abstract: Viewing theatre and religion as a couple involved in one of the world’s most lasting relationships serves to remind us not only of the depth and richness of this relationship but also its history of complex negotiations as the two partners have