Forword : Freedom is a debt to repay ; a legacy to uphold / Sandra G. Shannon
Introduction : "sustaining the complexity" of Lynn Nottage / Jocelyn L. Buckner
A chronology of Lynn Nottage's production history / Scott C. Knowles
On the table : crumbs of freedom and fugitivity - a twenty-first century (re)reading of Crumbs from the Table of Joy / Jaye Austin Williams
Guess who's coming to dinner : choral performance in Mud, River, Stone / Jennifer L. Hayes
Diasporic desires in Las Meninas / Jocelyn L. Buckner
Intimate spaces / public places : locating sites of migration, connection, and identity in Intimate Apparel / Adrienne Macki Braconi
"It's all about a rabbit, or it ain't" : the folkloric significations of Lynn Nottage / Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Vera Stark at the crossroads of history / Harvey Young
Special section : Ruined
Melodrama, sensation, and activism in Ruined / Jennifer-Scott Mobley
Renegotiating realism : hybridity of form and political potentiality in Ruined / Jeff Paden
Land rights and womb rights : forging difficult diasporic kinships in Ruined / Esther J. Terry
On creativity and collaboration : a conversation with Lynn Nottage, Seret Scott, and Kate Whoriskey / Jocelyn L. Buckner
Afterword : Lynn Nottage's futurity / Soyica Diggs Colbert.