SPECIAL ISSUE
Staging Crisis in Contemporary North American Theatre and Performance

GUEST EDITORS
FELICIA HARDISON LONDRÉ, University of Missouri-Kansas City
DIANA BENEA, University of Bucharest
LUDMILA MARTANOVSCHI, Ovidius University of Constanța

Contents

Crises on Stage: Imagining New Worlds
FELICIA HARDISON LONDRÉ,
DIANA BENEA,
LUDMILA MARTANOVSCHI

Staging (during) Crisis:
Indigenous Zoomlets in the Pandemic
CATHY C. WAEGNER

From Race Crisis to Race Celebration: Online Body Politics
and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
MARIA-SABINA DRAGA ALEXANDRU

Staging Race and Gender in the Era of Contemporary Crises:
Dramas of African American Women Playwrights
IFETA ČIRIĆ-FAZLIJA

The N-Word and Other Sticky Issues: Considering
Alice Childress’s Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Relationship
in Black and White in the Black Lives Matter Era
TANYA LONG BENNETT

The Cuban Rafter Crisis on Stage: Humanizing the Experience of Refugees in María Irene Fornés’ Manual for a Desperate Crossing
ARACELI GONZÁLEZ CRESPÁN

The Fall of the House of Weston and the Crumbling of
the American Dream in Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County RALUCA MOLDOVAN

The Activism of Dance Performance in Appalachia:
Utilizing the Arts to Address Social and
Environmental Crisis and Injustice in the Mountains
THERESA L. BURRISS

The Many Cri(s)es of Mia
CĂTĂLINA FLORINA FLORESCU

Reviews

Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, eds. Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma
DRAGOȘ IVANA

Roy Youdale. Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style: Challenges and Opportunities
ALEXANDRA MITREA

Notes on Contributors

Call for Papers