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Donatella Galella, Editor
American Musical Theater
By James Leve
Reviewed by Eric M. Glover

May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy
By Sharon Ammen
Reviewed by Franklin J. […]

American Musical Theater. James Leve. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015; Pp. 448.

American Musical Theater by James Leve provides instructors and students with an interdisciplinary approach to the history […]

May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy. Sharon Ammen. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017; Pp. 296.

In 1981, popular culture scholar Anthony Slide wrote, “if May Irwin is r […]

Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race. Sean Metzger. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014; Pp. 300.

The 2015 theme for the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute exhibition and gala […]

New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway. Edna Nahshon, ed. New York: Columbia University Press in association with the Museum of the City of New York, 2016; Pp. 237.

New York’s Yiddish The […]

Actor-Musicianship. Jeremy Harrison. London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2016; Pp. 220.

The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals. Dan Dietz. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015; Pp. 591.

Musical Theatre Song. […]

If you would like to write a review for JADT, please contact our current book review editor Donatella Galella at galella@ucr.edu. If you know of a book that would be suitable for review in JADT, please mail a copy […]

by Derek Miller
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 1 (Fall 2017)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2017 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

To begin at the end: actors land in a tableau; lights f […]

by Jeanne Klein
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 1 (Fall 2017)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2017 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more. […]

by Paul Gagliardi
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 1 (Fall 2017)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2017 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

In a chapter of her memoir on her tenure as leader o […]

by Jordan Schildcrout
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 1 (Fall 2017)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2017 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

From 1969 to 1974, after the premiere of Mart C […]

The American Theatre and Drama Society invites submissions for the Spring 2018 issue of The Journal of American Drama and Theatre

Mediations of Authorship in American Postdramatic Mediaturgies

Submission […]

Susan Kattwinkel, Editor
Acting in the Academy
By Peter Zazzali
Reviewed by Jennifer Joan Thompson

Directing Shakespeare in America
By Charles Ney
Reviewed by Deric McNish

Ruth Maleczech at Mabou […]

Acting in the Academy: The history of professional actor training in US higher education. Peter Zazzali. London, New York: Routledge, 2016; Pp. 219.

In Acting in the Academy, Peter Zazzali marshals some rather […]

Directing Shakespeare in America: Current Practices. By Charles Ney. London UK, New York NY: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016. Pp. 362.

Charles Ney’s Directing Shakespeare in America: Current Practices is a […]

The Theatre of David Henry Hwang. By Esther Kim Lee. New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015; pp. x + 207.

The work of David Henry Hwang represents an intersection of many of the most prominent concerns of […]

Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines: Woman’s Work. By Jessica Silsby Brater. Methuen Drama Engage Series. Series editors Enoch Brater and Mark Taylor-Batty. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Press, 2016; Pp. 2 […]

The term “Anthropocene” entered general scientific discourse in 2002, when chemist-geologist Paul Crutzen published an article in Nature advocating that his colleagues adopt this name for the current geo […]

Global climate change has been a major issue of concern and political debate in the US and internationally for over 20 years, marked notably by the Kyoto Protocol in 1992. While politically-fraught contention […]

In 1980, Ricardo Monti’s play Marrathon premieres in Buenos Aires.[1] In this play, the Argentine playwright presents the self-destructive specter of fascism as the effect of ideologies with a long historical t […]