Jenn Cole.
Hysteria in Performance.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. Illustrations. ix + 236 pp.
$120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-00556-8; $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00557-5. 
Irena R. Makaryk.
April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Illustrations. 328 pp.
$70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0372-7.
Reviewed by Juliette Milbach (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) Published on H-SHERA (November, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Nicholas R. Jones. Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. xxiii + 221 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-08346-9.
Reviewed by Chloe Ireton (UCL History) Published on H-Black-Europe (December, 2020) Commissioned by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center)
Sean P. Holmes. Weavers of Dreams, Unite!: Actors' Unionism in Early Twentieth-Century America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 240 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03748-1.
Reviewed by Tim Gloege (Independent Scholar) Published on H-SHGAPE (March, 2016) Commissioned by Julia Irwin
An Actors’ Union or Acting Profession?
Andrea Most. Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America. New York: New York University Press, 2013. 304 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-0819-4; $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8147-2462-0.
Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield (Brandeis University) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2013) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Show and Tell
Stewart F. Lane. Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011. ix + 221 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-5917-9.
Reviewed by Ken Kanter (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2012) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Gene A. Plunka. Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010, c2009. vi + 447 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-49425-0; $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-18242-3.
Reviewed by Anselm C. Heinrich (Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies) Published on H-German (July, 2012) Commissioned by Benita Blessing
Katie Normington. Medieval English Drama. Cambridge: Polity, 2009. x + 177 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7456-3603-0; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7456-3604-7.
Reviewed by Matthew Irvin (Sewanee, The University of the South) Published on H-Catholic (November, 2011) Commissioned by Stephanie M. Seery-Murphy
Robert J. Goldstein. The Frightful State: Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. 310 S. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84545-459-3.Gary D. Stark. Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. xxvii + 316 pp.
