Editorial

- Emeljanow, Victor

Experiencing live musical theatre performance: La Cage Aux Folles and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

- Taylor, Millie

Fingerposts, limelight, staircases, and other delights: Oscar Wilde’s Salomé as popular drama

- Donohue, Joseph

If only … Brooks McNamara, 1937 – 2009 a personal valediction

- Mayer, David

Liveness anxiety: karaoke and the performance of class

- Brown, Kevin

No Pain/No Gain - the provocation of laughter in slapstick comedy

- Peacock, Louise Sarah

Popular entertainments and the spectacle of bleeding

- Nevitt, Lucy

Staircases and their theatrical impact

- Donohue, Joseph

The circus origin of ‘Hep’

- Senelick, Laurence

“Entertaining” the notion of change: the transformative power of performance in Argentine pop

- Favoretto, Mara, Wilson, Timothy D.