Abstract
This issue of Theatre Topics opens with a group of articles reflecting on "community-based" theatre, a term that has emerged over the past decade to refer to a wide variety of grassroots, activist performance practices challenging traditional boundaries between professional and nonprofessional, actor and nonactor, artist and audience. Its practitioners distinguish this movement from what has traditionally been known in the United States as "community" theatre, a term loosely designating local, amateur productions of established dramatic texts. The language here points to the contested nature of the word "community" itself, often glowingly evoked yet murkily defined. What do we mean when we speak of community? And how does theatre reflect, create, or change community?
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