Passing performances: queer readings of leading players in American theater history

Introduction / Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra

"My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand

"Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. Walen

Bohemian on horseback: Adah Isaacs Menken / Noreen Barnes-McClain

Rebels of their sex: Nance O'Neil and Lizzie Borden / Jennifer Jones

A lesbian marriage of cultural consequence: Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe, 1886-1933 / Kim Marra

Alla Nazimova: "the witch of makeup" / Robert A. Schanke

Elsie Janis: "a comfortable goofiness" / Lee Alan Morrow

Staging heterosexuality: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's design for living / Sam Abel

Kit and Guth: a lavender marriage on Broadway / Lesley Ferris

Webster without tears: a daughter's journey / Milly S. Barranger

Cheryl Crawford: one not so naked individual / Jay Plum

Monty Woolley: the public and private man from Saratoga Springs / Billy J. Harbin

Mary Martin: washin' that man right outta her hair / Stacy Wolf

Joseph Cino and the first off-off broadway theater / Douglas W. Gordy.