A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference Introduction ?LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELL PART I STUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORY Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason ?ODAI JOHNSON Caricatured, Marginalized, and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia?s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936?1939 ?JONATHAN SHANDELL Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins?s Appropriate ?SCOTT PROUDFIT Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance ?ANGELA K. AHLGREN PART II WITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCE Editor?s Introduction to the Special Section Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances ?CHRYSTYNA DAIL To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie?s Witchcraft ?JANE BARNETTE Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare?s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter?s Tale ?JESSICA HOLT Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill?s Vinegar Tom ?MAMATA SENGUPTA (Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba?s Heroine Journey in Wicked ?REBECCA K. HAMMONDS Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell ?DAVID BISAHA PART III Essay from the Conference The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020 New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s ?LINDSEY MANTOAN