Modern Drama

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Drama is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Distributed Agencies in Dramatic Form: A Posthuman Perspective on Lucy Prebble’sThe Sugar Syndromeand Sarah Ruhl’sDead Man’s Cell Phone2
Femi Osofisan’s Evolving Global Consciousness in Four Adaptations1
An Invitation from the Displaced: Refuge Restaged in The Jungle and As Far as My Fingertips Take Me1
Migrant Deaths and European Revenants in Thomas Köck’santigone. a requiem(2019): Sophocles’ Tragedy Recomposed and Decomposed1
“These People in This House”: Intermedial Approaches to Decentring the Domestic in Harold Pinter’s A Slight Ache and The Homecoming1
Performing the Other: Post-Humanism and Mediatized Senses in The Wooster Group’s Production of The Room1
Stacy Wolf. Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre across America.1
The Domestic Sphere as Counter-Surveillance in Lorraine Hansberry’sA Raisin in the Sun1
Shattering Normalcy: Disability and Queerness in Tennessee Williams’s One Arm1
A Mother’s Touch: Ethics and Maternal Corporeality in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language1
The Concept of the Concept Musical: Love Life, Cabaret, Company1
Ashley E. Lucas, Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration1
Medals and Metals: Speculating Freedom in Suzan-Lori Parks’sFather Comes Home from the Wars1
Narrating Arab-American Transnational Identity in Leila Buck’s Hkeelee [Talk to Me]1
S.N. Behrman, Comedy, and the Extermination of the Jews: Broadway, Christmas Eve, 19341
“American Homespun Fascists”: Seán O’Casey and the Returning Veteran at the American Negro Theatre0
Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, ed.A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present.0
Clifford Mason, Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun0
Christopher Bigsby. Staging America: Twenty-First Century Dramatists0
Learning to Love Medea:The Hungry Woman, Mojada, and the Pedagogy of Adaptation0
S.E. Jackson, The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theatre and Thought0
Sonali Pahwa, Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt0
Thrill Me: Queerness, Spectatorship, and the Utopian Performative in South Korean Musical Theatre0
Translating and Imaging China: Anthologies of Modern Chinese Drama in English Translation0
Michael Mckinnie. Theatre in Market Economies0
Debating Decolonization: The Use of Postcolonial Metatheatre in Murray Carlin’s Not Now, Sweet Desdemona0
Julia A. Walker. Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage0
Jessica Nakamura. Transgenerational Remembrance: Performance and the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan.0
Foregrounding (Lost) Rituals in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Transatlantic Gesture0
Artaud’s Surgical Theatre: War, Medicine, and Regeneration0
Diana Taylor, ¡Presente!: The Politics of Presence0
Marcia Noe. Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre0
New Approaches to Harold Pinter0
Katie N. Johnson. Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway0
Deadly Pinter: Ghostly Precedents and New Possibilities for Staging0
Jeffery Kennedy. Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players0
Hélène Lecossois. Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J.M. Synge0
Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, and Liyang Xia. Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces0
Stephen Abbott. The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics0
Understanding Drama as Performance Texts: Teaching Gao Xingjian’s Plays of the 1980s0
The “Miracle” of the Russian Revolution: The Mystery Play in Early Soviet Culture0
The Dialectical Image of White Masochism and the Fugitive Spectator: On Claudia Rankine’s The White Card0
Ian Ward. The Play of Law in Modern British Theatre0
David Bisaha. American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism0
Exhibiting the Nation: Identity and (Post)colonial Aesthetics in Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad0
Drew Lichtenberg. The Piscatorbühne Century: Politics and Aesthetics in the Modern Theater after 19270
Transculturation, Reclamation, and Adaptation: Approaches to Teaching Father Comes Home from the Wars0
Performing the Elements in Indian Eco-Theatre: Deepan Sivaraman’sThe Legends of Khasak0
Josephine Lee. Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater0
Bonnie Marranca. Timelines: writings and conversations0
“This Could Go On Forever”: Rethinking the End in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Apocalyptic Dramas0
Brent Salter. Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–19510
Hana Worthen, Humanism, Drama, and Performance: Unwriting Theatre0
Catherine Cole. Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice0
Barry Day, ed. Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre0
Christine Bold. “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits, 1880s1930s0
Alex Ferrone, Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London0
Emotionally Uninhabitable? Dramatizing Environmental Destruction and Contamination0
The Kindness of Strangers: Eugenics and Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire0
Candice Amich. Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas.0
Rashna Darius Nicholson, The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853–1893)0
Finding T.S. Eliot’s “Little Devils”: Marionettes and Sweeney Agonistes0
“A Positive Statement of a Negative Thing”: Nietzschean Eternal Recurrence as Dramatic Form in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot0
“Africa Claiming Her Own”: Unveiling Natural Hair and African Diasporic Identity in Lorraine Hansberry’s UnabridgedA Raisin in the Sun0
Hannah Simpson. Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of Witness: Pain in Postwar Francophone Drama0
Christopher Morash, Yeats on Theatre0
Ubu Roi in W.B. Yeats’s The Green Helmet and The Player Queen0
John Lahr. Arthur Miller: American Witness0
Brandon Woolf, Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin0
Ric Knowles. International Theatre Festivals and 21st-Century Interculturalism0
Ibsen Postcards / Postcard Ibsens: Domesticating Modernism0
Sarah Mackenzie. Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada: A Mechanism of Decolonization0
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Revisiting HIV/AIDS Theatre: Black and Queer Spatio-Temporalities in Cheryl L. West’s Before It Hits Home0
Juliet Guzzetta, The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy0
Loren Kruger, A Century of South African Theatre0
“Heredity, Heredity!”: Recovering Henry James’sThe Reprobatein Its Scientific and Theatrical Contexts0
Jennifer Buckley. Beyond Text: Theater and Performance in Print after 1900.0
Gendered Violence and NeoliberalDesaparecidosin Luis Cano’sSocavón0
Michelle Granshaw, Irish on the Move: Performing Mobility in American Variety Theatre0
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard: A Life0
Sunny Stalter-Pace. Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance0
Theresa J. May. Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater.0
The Circumstances of Colour: The Jim Crow Translation of Jonny spielt auf0
Marlis Schweitzer. Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century0
Matthew Sturgis. Oscar Wilde: A Life0
Magda Romanska and Kathleen Cioffi, eds., Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context0
David Kornhaber. Theatre & Knowledge0
Jordana Cox. Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York0
Nic Leonhardt. Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange (1890–1925).0
Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Kathleen Irwin, and Moira J. Day, eds., Performing Turtle Island: Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage0
Bess Rowen. The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment0
Grief Unspoken in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living0
Sharell D. Luckett, David Román, and Isaiah Matthew Wooden, eds. Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration0
Max Shulman. The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890–19400
Katrina M. Phillips, Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History0
La Donna L. Forsgren, Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance0
April Sizemore-Barber. Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation0
Staging Socrates: The Public Intellectual and Democracy in Maxwell Anderson’sBarefoot in Athens0
“Tangled Passions”: Realism and Lyricism in the Plays of Peter Gill0
Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, eds. Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama0
J. Paul Halferty and Cathy Leeney, eds. Analysing Gender in Performance0
Life in the Huddle: Risk, Representation, and the Labour of Athletic Practice in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves0
Patricia Gaborik, Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics0
Martin Kagel and David Z. Saltz, eds. Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori0
Rohan McWilliam. London’s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800–1914.0
Destined to Hope or Remorse: T.S. Eliot, Francis Bacon, and Their Furies0
Xiaomei Chen. Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture0
Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris, eds. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century.0
Outstanding Article Award for 20230
Macelle Mahala. Black Theater, City Life: African American Arts Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies0
Alice Brown Takes on Social Insecurity:Joint Owners in Spain0
“Those Who Wait, Burn”: New Penelopes in Plays by Sarah Ruhl, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Naomi Wallace0
Teaching The Colored Museum and Its Doubles: Black Queer Theatrical Aesthetics in Bootycandy and Ain’t No Mo’0
“A Terrible Art of Sharp-Shooting at the Audience”: Teaching the Shock of Modernist Drama via the Play of Ideas0
Barry Houlihan. Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories, 1951–19770
Tracy C. Davis. Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform0
Jesse Gardiner. Soviet Theatre during the Thaw: Aesthetics, Politics and Performance0
Black Indigeneity and Anti-Colonial Rebellion in Eugene O’Neill’sThe Emperor Jones0
The Haunting of the Antebellum South: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate as a Gothic Memory Archive0
“The Point Is, You Don’t Seem to Have Learnt Anything”: Reimagining J.B. Priestley’sAn Inspector Callsas a BrechtianLehrstückfor the Middle Classes0
Sean Metzger, The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization0
Dispute in the Diaspora: Metaphor and Contradiction in Twenty-First-Century Arab American Family Dramas0
Takeo Rivera. Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity0
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science0
Annie Holt. Modernizing Costume Design, 1820–19200
Outstanding Article Award for 20220
Corey Wakeling. Beckett’s Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure0
Patrick Maley, After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama0
The Politics and Ethics of Collective Memory and Forgetting in Christina Reid’s My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?0
Onnagata, Grotesque Beauty, and Aging: Reading Tennessee Williams’s Kabuki-Inspired Plays0
Shannon Walsh, Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout0
Meredith Conti and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. eds. Theatre and the Macabre0
Lisa Biggs. The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation0
“Something Is Happening”: Medical Realism and the Problem of Acting in Harold Pinter’sA Kind of Alaska0
Mala Renganathan and Arnab Bhattacharya, eds. Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre0
The Mathematical Heart of Tom Stoppard0
Front Matter0
Babak Rahimi, ed. Theater in the Middle East: Between Performance and Politics.0
Michael Malek Najjar, Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., and Shane Vogel, eds. Race and Performance after Repetition.0
Katelyn Hale Wood, Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States0
Listening to Los Angeles in the Theatre of Anna Deavere Smith and Gabriel Kahane0
Christin Essin, Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor0
A New Feminist Absurd?: Women’s Protest, Fury, and Futility in Contemporary American Theatre0
Zander Brietzke, Magnum Opus: The Cycle Plays of Eugene O’Neill0
Kareem Khubchandani. Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife.0
Miguel Escobar Varela, Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research0
Outstanding Article Award for 20210
Kristin Gjesdal, The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche0
Maria Shevtsova, Rediscovering Stanislavsky0
“Imagination Is Now the World”: W.B. Yeats and the Staging of Visionary Experience0
Bertolt Brecht’s “Niobes”: Example, Interruption, and Model0
Rethinking the Refugee Experience in Verbatim Theatre: Hospitality and Translation in Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s Aftermath0
Esther Kim Lee. Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era0
Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand, eds. Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation0
A Fan through the Ages: Layers of Adaptation in SITI Company’s Hanjo0
Tank Man as Icon and “Crisis Actor” in Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica and Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap0
Elizabeth Brewer Redwine. Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre0
Jeffrey K. Coleman. The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage.0
Olga Taxidou. Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality0
The Afterlives of Enslavement: Histories of Racial Injustice in Contemporary Black British Theatre0
Tavia Nyong’o. Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life.0
The “Nature of Theatre”: Herder’s Pursuit of a Human Theatre0
Lindsay Brandon Hunter, Playing Real: Mimesis, Media and Mischief0
Lisa Woynarski. Ecodramaturgies: Theatre, Performance and Climate Change0
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink. Nomadic Theatre: Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage.0
Ryan Claycomb. In the Lurch: Verbatim Theatre and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation0
Sarah Balkin, Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage0
Gustavo Rodríguez Martín, ed. Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World0
Hershini Bhana Young. Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance0
David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb, eds. The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness, and Radical Performance0
“You Are against UK Law”: Clean Break Theatre Company’s Carceral Dramaturgy0
David Clare, Fiona Mcdonagh, and Justine Nakase, eds. The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716–20160
Evert Sprinchorn. Ibsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Works.0
Peter P. Reed. Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance0
Xiaomei Chen, Tarryn Li-Min Chun, and Siyuan Liu, eds. Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theatres of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era0
Joseph Cermatori. Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
“Nobody Loves Me and the Sun’s Going to Kill Me”: Toward a Darker Ecodramaturgy0
Founding Pedagogies of Modern Drama0
Katarzyna Fazan, Michal Kobialka, and Bryce Lease, eds. A History of Polish Theatre0
Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation0
Yeats’s Doll and Donkey: Alienating theUpanishadsinThe Herne’s Egg0
Teaching Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced: Navigating Islamophobia and Orientalism in the Drama Classroom0
Shepard’s Political Economy: Curse of the Starving Class in Neoliberal Capitalism0
Decolonizing Curriculum: Teaching the Twenty-First-Century Dramatic Canon0
Pausing on a Sunday: Sondheim and the Composition of the Secular in the American Musical0
W.B. Yeats and the Delegated Voice:The Words upon the Window-PaneandA Full Moon in March0
Writing and Staging Our Latinx Stories: The Utopian Performative in Teatro Luna0
Leah Sidi. Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life: Theatre, Thought, and Mental Suffering0
Post-Auschwitz Dramaturgy: Toward the Later Edward Bond0
Shana Redmond. Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson.0
Diana Looser. Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific0
Touching Back while Black: Self-Defence and the Politics of Black US Citizenship in Paul Green’s In Abraham’s Bosom0
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance0
Catherine Hindson. Theatre in the Chocolate Factory: Performance at Cadbury’s Bournville, 1900–19350
Interface Theatre: Watching Ourselves Disappear0
Michael D’alessandro. Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835750
Marcus Cheng Chye Tan and Charlene Rajendran, eds., Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary0
Shannon Jackson. Back Stages: Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life0
Jewish Immigrant Theatre and the Argentinean Avant-Gardes: The Case ofIbergusin 1926 Buenos Aires0
Sergio Blanco’s Tebas Land: Staging an Authentic Fiction0
Unwriting the Future: Russell Hoban’s Stage Adaptation of Riddley Walker0
Revision, Analogy, and the “Problem of Reality” in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen and Human Touch0
Stacie Selmon McCormick, Staging Black Fugitivity0
Martin Revermann. Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics0
Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar & Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett and Technology0
Nicholas Ridout, Scenes from Bourgeois Life0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry0
Kate Dossett. Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal0
Denise Varney, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–20180
Jean-Michel Rabaté, ed. The New Samuel Beckett Studies.0
Examining Martin Crimp’s Political Aesthetic inThe CountryandThe City0
Patricia Herrera. Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From the Café to Hip Hop Theater0
Bradley Rogers. This Song Is You: Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance0
Matthew Franks. Subscription Theater: Democracy and Drama in Britain and Ireland, 1880–19390
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