In Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation, Patrick McKelvey traces the “confluences and contradictions” at play in disabled performance groups’ relationships to the US government’s vocational rehabilitation programs in the mid- to late-twentieth century. Grounding theatrical performance as an embodied display of and resistance to rehabilitation, McKelvey weaves together performance studies and disability studies to complicate common narratives of disability rights history. In doing so, this book provides a basis for future work that may emerge at the nexus of performance, disability, and history.