Semiotics and its heritage / Marvin Carlson -- The phenomenological attitude / Bert O. States -- Alceste in Hollywood: A semiotic reading of The Misanthrope / Jim Carmody -- Every transaction conjures a new boundary / Josette Feral -- Performing history's unsettlement / Joanne Tompkins -- What is to be remembered?: Tourism to Ghana's slave castle-dungeons / Sandra L Richards -- For whom is the king a king? Issues of intercultural production, perception, and reception in a Kathakali King Lear / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- Black/face publics: The social bodies of Fraternidad / Jill Lane -- Virtual Chinatown and new racial formation: Performance of Cantonese opera in the Bay area / Daphne Lei -- Reality [check] / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Theater events and their political contexts: A problem in the writing of theater history / Thomas Postlewait -- Representing history: Performing the Columbian exposition / Rosemarie K. Bank -- Kinethetic empathies and the politics of compassion / Susan Leigh Foster -- Shadows of Brecht / David Savran -- Historicizing the relations of theatrical production / Bruce McConachie -- Brecht and the contradictory actor / John Rouse -- Mrs. Siddons looks back in anger: Feminist historiography for eighteenth-century British theater / Ellen Donkin -- Practicing cultural disruptions: Gay and lesbian representation and sexuality / Jill Dolan -- Fe/male impersonation: The discourse of camp / Kate Davy -- Not-about-AIDS / David Roman -- The violence of "we"": Politicizing identification / Elin Diamond -- Staging sexual injury: How I learned to Drive / Ann Pellegrini -- Immobile legs, stalled works: Psychoanalysis and moving deaths / Peggy Phelan -- Invasions friendly and unfriendly: The dramaturgy of direct theater / Richard Schechner -- Performance theory, Hmong Shamans, and cultural politics / Dwight Conquergood -- Animal rites: Performing beyond the human / Una Chaukhuri -- Live from cyberspace, or, I was sitting at my computer this guy appeared he thought I was a bot / Philip Auslander -- Virtually yours: Presence, liveness, lessness / Herbert Blau -- Dracula's daughters: In-corporating avatars in cyberspace / Sue-Ellen Case