by Iris Smith Fischer
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 2 (Spring 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

This special issue, sponsored by the American […]

Introduction: Performance as Alternate Form of Inquiry in the Age of STEM by Iris Smith Fischer, Guest Editor

This In-Between Life: Disability, Trans-Corporeality, and Radioactive Half-Life in D. W. […]

iDream: Addressing the Gender Imbalance in STEM through Research-Informed Theatre for Social Change by Eileen Trauth, Karen Keifer-Boyd and Suzanne Trauth

Setting the Stage for Science Communication: […]

by George Pate and Libby Ricardo
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 2 (Spring 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

In the Summer of 2010, the worlds of […]

by Cindy L. Duckert and Elizabeth A. De Stasio
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 2 (Spring 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

The education and tr […]

by Eileen Trauth, Karen Keifer-Boyd and Suzanne Trauth
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 2 (Spring 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre […]

by Bradley Stephenson
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 2 (Spring 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

D.W. Gregory’s most famous and most produced pl […]

Susan Kattwinkel, Editor

 
Blue Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater
By Timothy R. White
Reviewed by David Bisaha
 
The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization a […]

Blue Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater. By Timothy R. White. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015; Pp. 275.

Blue-Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American […]

The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian. By Rick DesRochers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 187.

Rick DesRochers’s exploration of vaudeville comedians and c […]

Stages of Engagement. Edited by Joshua E. Polster. Routledge Press: New York, NY, 2016. Pp. 241.

Joshua Polster’s Stages of Engagement features eight essays that examine the relationship between United States s […]

Performing Anti-slavery: Activist Women on Antebellum Stages. By Gay Gibson Cima. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 298.

Gay Gibson Cima’s new book, Performing Anti-Slavery, should become […]

American Tragedian: The Life of Edwin Booth. By Daniel J. Watermeier. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2015; Pp. 464.

More has been written on Edwin Booth than any other American actor. Three popular […]

Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater. By Jordan Schildcrout. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. Pp. 268.

Jordan Schildcrout’s Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal H […]

The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North. By Douglas A. Jones, Jr.  Theater: Theory/Text/Performance series. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2014. Pp. […]

The Journal of American Drama and Theatre asked seven leading scholars to comment on how they saw the state of our field today. This is what they wrote.

New Directions in Dramatic and Theatrical Theory: The […]

by Kevin Byrne
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

African American theatre history scholarship has […]

by Michael Y. Bennett
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

There has been rising interest in theatre […]

by Jorge Huerta
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Much has happened in the field of Chicano theatre […]

by Esther Kim Lee
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2016)
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©2016 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

When I was writing my dissertation in the late […]