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by Ira S. Murfin
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Spalding Gray’s autobiographical monologues ex […]

by Christophe Collard
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Weary of endlessly scavenging for funding, […]

by Johan Callens
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

For a good understanding, the Spring 2018 American […]

by Ellen Gillooly-Kress
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Introduction

A quiet, yet hopeful group of […]

by Claire Swyzen
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

“In this software universe, existence finds itself […]

The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics. Eddie Paterson. New York: Methuen, 2015; Pp. 232.

The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics by Eddie Paterson offers […]

Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s. Chrystyna Dail. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016; Pp. 194.

In Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s, […]

Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, War, Performance. Natalie Alvarez. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018; Pp. 214.

Reading Natalie Alvarez’s Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, W […]

Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left. Malik Gaines. New York: NYU Press, 2017; Pp. 248. 

It begins with a bold proposition. In Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left, scholar-practitioner […]

Samuel Beckett’s Theatre in America: The Legacy of Alan Schneider as Beckett’s American Director. Natka Bianchini. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; Pp. 204.

To discuss the production history of Samuel Bec […]

Stages of Struggle and Celebration: A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas. Sandra M. Mayo and Elvin Holt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016; Pp. 341.

The history of black theatre in the United S […]

Books ReceivedIf you would […] “Books Received”

Donatella Galella, Editor
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left
By Malik Gaines
Reviewed by Kristin Moriah

The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics
By Eddie Paterson
Reviewed […]

The 2016 Oslo International Festival was the biggest to date. Stretching over three weeks, the festival offered twenty works of theatre, dance, performance, and music as well as seminars and talkbacks. It was also […]

A Pessimistic Background for a Start

When I see the nth show on our stages that is interested mainly in itself, or in the current fashion, or in its perfect following of a certain aesthetics, or in quickly […]