... Drawing on the memoirs of two male actors in the commercial Parsi theater of the early twentieth century, this chapter queries the construction of womanhood, religious identity, and autobiography itself. Planted in vernacular, largely oral, systems of communication and knowledge, these artists...

... are deployed in narratives about airport security, for example, through representations in popular culture as uninterested, sassy, and ineffective TSA agents, this chapter forms a general theory of security theater and also pays attention to the ways that black women’s bodies come to represent, and also resist...

... theater sankofa trilogy , benu , which has no lgbt characters. Though d’bi.young openly identifies as queer, Gill argues that she actively refuses static categories of sexual orientation, especially if they are based on parochial presumptions about sex/gender transparency and stability, which invites...

...A Theater of the World, to 1630 ...