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If you would like to write a review for JADT, please contact our current book review editor Maya Roth at [email protected]. If you know of a book that would be suitable for review in JADT, please arrange for a […]

Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec. Julie Burelle. Performance Works, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2019; 232 pp.

Provocative […]

Contemporary Women Stage Directors: Conversations on Craft. Paulette Marty. London; New York: Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Collections, 2019; Pp. 292 + viii.

Contemporary Women Stage Directors: Conversations on Cr […]

Ensemble-Made Chicago: A Guide To Devised Theater. Chloe Johnson and Coya Paz Brownrigg. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2019. Pp. 202.

Chloe Johnson and Coya Paz Brownrigg’s Ensemble-Made: A Guide to […]

Twenty-First Century American Playwrights. Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018; Pp. 228.

In 1982, Christopher Bigsby penned A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American […]

Maya Roth, Editor

Contemporary Women Stage Directors: Conversation on Craft
By Paulette Marty
Reviewed by Dohyun Gracia Shin
 

Double review
Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of […]

If you would like to write a review for JADT, please contact our current book review editor Donatella Galella at [email protected]. If you know of a book that would be suitable for review in JADT, please arrange for […]

The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era. Jonathan Shandell. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018; Pp. 213 + xii.

Jonathan Shandell’s The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights E […]

Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches. Edited by Sharrell D. Luckett with Tia M. Shaffer. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017; Pp. 233.

Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer’s Black Acting Methods: Critical A […]

Palabras del Cielo: An Exploration of Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences. Compiled by José Casas with Christina Marín, ed. Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing, 2018; Pp. 581.

Palabras del Cielo: An E […]

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams. Katherine Weiss, ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2014; Pp. 290.

The book opens with a quote from Tennessee Williams: “truth is something you need to deserve,” a s […]

Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, & the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization. Judith Hamera. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017; Pp. 286 + xvii.

Scholarship on the subject of […]

Donatella Galella, Editor
The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era
By Jonathan Shandell
Reviewed by Jennie Youssef

Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches
Edited by Sharrell D. Luckett […]

by Maureen McDonnell
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 31, Number 2 (Winter 2019)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2019 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Alison Bechdel offered a complicated and […]

by Joanna Mansbridge
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 31, Number 2 (Winter 2019)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2019 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

It’s a tragedy, I think, in terms of Ca […]

by Julia Rössler
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 31, Number 2 (Winter 2019)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2019 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

The art of playwriting is not fundamentally a n […]