Modern Drama

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Translating and Imaging China: Anthologies of Modern Chinese Drama in English Translation4
Priscilla Dionne Layne and Lily Tonger-Erk, eds. Staging Blackness: Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater2
Dick Higgins. Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings. Edited by Bonnie Marranca2
Debra Caplan and Rachel Merrill Moss, eds. The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed the World1
Ric Knowles. International Theatre Festivals and 21st-Century Interculturalism1
Christin Essin, Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor1
Teaching The Colored Museum and Its Doubles: Black Queer Theatrical Aesthetics in Bootycandy and Ain’t No Mo’1
Staging Socrates: The Public Intellectual and Democracy in Maxwell Anderson’sBarefoot in Athens1
The Afterlives of Enslavement: Histories of Racial Injustice in Contemporary Black British Theatre1
Adrienne Kennedy. Collected Plays & Other Writings1
Finding T.S. Eliot’s “Little Devils”: Marionettes and Sweeney Agonistes1
Louise Owen. Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain1
Katie N. Johnson. Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway1
Ryan Donovan. Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity1
Matthew Sturgis. Oscar Wilde: A Life1
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder. The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism0
Things of Science: Tom Stoppard’s Galileo0
Front Matter0
Tina Post. Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression0
David Bisaha. American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism0
Ryan Claycomb. In the Lurch: Verbatim Theatre and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation0
The Dialectical Image of White Masochism and the Fugitive Spectator: On Claudia Rankine’s The White Card0
Pioneering Feminist Realism in Minna Canth’s Työmiehen Vaimo [The Worker’s Wife] (1885)0
Sergio Blanco’s Tebas Land: Staging an Authentic Fiction0
The Astonishing Lives of the Ballets Russes in J.M. Barrie’s The Truth about the Russian Dancers0
Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li, Eds. Realisms in East Asian Performance0
Post-Auschwitz Dramaturgy: Toward the Later Edward Bond0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry0
Max Shulman. The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890–19400
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science0
J. Paul Halferty and Cathy Leeney, eds. Analysing Gender in Performance0
Christine Bold. “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits, 1880s1930s0
Jonas Tinius. State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration0
Shattering Normalcy: Disability and Queerness in Tennessee Williams’s One Arm0
Stefka Mihaylova. Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century0
Jesse Gardiner. Soviet Theatre during the Thaw: Aesthetics, Politics and 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
Pausing on a Sunday: Sondheim and the Composition of the Secular in the American Musical0
Meredith Conti and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. eds. Theatre and the Macabre0
Diana Looser. Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific0
Carrie J. Preston. Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice0
The Kindness of Strangers: Eugenics and Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire0
Thrill Me: Queerness, Spectatorship, and the Utopian Performative in South Korean Musical Theatre0
Moira S. Fortin Cornejo. Rapa Nui Theatre: Staging Indigenous Identities in Easter Island0
Outstanding Article Award for 20230
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard: A Life0
The Freedom Mythology of Father Comes Home from the Wars0
Martin Wagner. A Stage for Debate: The Political Significance of Vienna’s Burgtheater, 1814–18670
“A Terrible Art of Sharp-Shooting at the Audience”: Teaching the Shock of Modernist Drama via the Play of Ideas0
Censorship Public and Censorship Private: Authority, Authenticity, and Acceptability in the Early Production History of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!0
Bethany Hughes. Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity0
Emotionally Uninhabitable? Dramatizing Environmental Destruction and Contamination0
Tracy C. Davis. Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform0
OTAKAR ZICH. Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art: Theoretical Dramaturgy0
Hannah Simpson. Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of Witness: Pain in Postwar Francophone Drama0
Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms. Incarceration Games: A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance0
Ulf Otto. The Theater of Electricity: Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century0
Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell. Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance0
Esther Kim Lee. Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era0
Anita Gonzalez. Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea0
Jeffery Kennedy. Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players0
“The Anatomy of the Gag”: Havel, Stoppard, and Comedies of Censorship0
John Ireland. Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis: Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath0
Juliet Guzzetta, The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy0
Xiaomei Chen. Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture0
Founding Pedagogies of Modern Drama0
Cognitive Ecology in Chantal Bilodeau’s Climate Change Theatre0
Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson, Naomi Paxton, and Claire Warden, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre0
Barry Houlihan. Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories, 1951–19770
Macelle Mahala. Black Theater, City Life: African American Arts Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies0
Peter W. Marx. Max Reinhardt: From Bourgeois Theater to Metropolitan Culture. Translated by Robert E. Goodwin0
Nicholas Grene. Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century0
Outstanding Article Awards for 20240
Destined to Hope or Remorse: T.S. Eliot, Francis Bacon, and Their Furies0
Gustavo Rodríguez Martín, ed. Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World0
John Lahr. Arthur Miller: American Witness0
Jon D. Rossini. Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama0
All the Vulnerable Boys: Child-Saving Conjured in Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf and Hiro Kanagawa’s Indian Arm0
David Clare, Fiona Mcdonagh, and Justine Nakase, eds. The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716–20160
Nic Leonhardt. Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange (1890–1925).0
Elizabeth T. Craft. Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage0
Joseph Cermatori. Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand, eds. Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation0
“A Leasing of Bodies”: Race, Medicine, and Radical Care in Jamie Lloyd’s Revival of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect0
Adam J. Frank with Samuel Vriezen (and many more). Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein’s Parlor Plays0
Theron Schmidt. The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear0
Jonathan Shandell. Readying the Revolution: African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement0
Olga Taxidou. Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality0
Migrant Deaths and European Revenants in Thomas Köck’santigone. a requiem(2019): Sophocles’ Tragedy Recomposed and Decomposed0
Cold War Diva: Medea, 19470
Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, and Liyang Xia. Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces0
Brent Salter. Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–19510
A Cancelled Lesson in Plurality: Hannah Arendt and The Situation0
David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb, eds. The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness, and Radical Performance0
Social Reform in the Plays of Mohan Rakesh0
Bess Rowen. The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment0
Lust in Translation: Language and Longing in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love (1997)0
Cosmos and History in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman0
Imagining and Reflecting Israel/Palestine in Naomi Wallace’s A State of Innocence0
Julia Jarcho. Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism0
Pandemic Remembered: Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918) Remedied0
Stephen Abbott. The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics0
Out of Place, Out of Control: Transgression in Pearl Cleage’s Bourbon at the Border and Flyin’ West0
“Forever Unliving and Yet Never Dead”: The Queerly Ecological Hauntings of Nathalie Claude’s The Salon Automaton0
The Crucible of Art: Poetry, Ritual, and Parable in Arthur Miller0
Jordana Cox. Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York0
Tarryn Li-Min Chun. Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China0
Katarzyna Fazan, Michal Kobialka, and Bryce Lease, eds. A History of Polish Theatre0
Josephine Lee. Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater0
Revisiting HIV/AIDS Theatre: Black and Queer Spatio-Temporalities in Cheryl L. West’s Before It Hits Home0
Michael D’alessandro. Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835750
“One Day You Are Going to Die”: Predestination and Mortality in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead0
“They Do Need You, Don’t They?”: Disability, Gender, and Care Work in World War I Conscription Dramas0
The Mathematical Heart of Tom Stoppard0
Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation0
“A Positive Statement of a Negative Thing”: Nietzschean Eternal Recurrence as Dramatic Form in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot0
Annie Holt. Modernizing Costume Design, 1820–19200
The Tragedy of Extinction: Miranda Rose Hall’s A Play for the Living0
Leah Sidi. Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life: Theatre, Thought, and Mental Suffering0
Ibsen Postcards / Postcard Ibsens: Domesticating Modernism0
S.E. Jackson, The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theatre and Thought0
Shannon Jackson. Back Stages: Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life0
William A. Everett. The Year that Made the Musical: 1924 and the Glamour of Musical Theatre0
Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar & Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett and Technology0
“You Are against UK Law”: Clean Break Theatre Company’s Carceral Dramaturgy0
Martin Kagel and David Z. Saltz, eds. Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori0
Christopher Morash, Yeats on Theatre0
Labour of Love: Alienation, Race, and Family in Julia Cho’s Aubergine0
Tank Man as Icon and “Crisis Actor” in Lucy Kirkwood’sChimericaand Lauren Yee’sThe Great Leap0
Erratum0
Michael Y. Bennett. Between the Lines: A Philosophy of Theatre0
Extending the Shakespearean Rhizome: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead0
Marcia Noe. Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre0
Peter P. Reed. Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance0
(Re)Playing Kidwell and Sheppard’s Underground Railroad Game0
David Wiles. Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi0
“This Could Go On Forever”: Rethinking the End in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Apocalyptic Dramas0
Specialization on Stage: The Formation and Deformation of Knowledge in Hedda Gabler and A Dream Play0
Contested Memories: Neoliberal Hegemony and British Postdramatic Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century0
M. Myrta Leslie Santana Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba0
Life in the Huddle: Risk, Representation, and the Labour of Athletic Practice in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves0
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance0
Jackie Sibblies Drury and the Violence of Repetition0
Miguel Escobar Varela, Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research0
The Haunting of the Antebellum South: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate as a Gothic Memory Archive0
Ian Ward. The Play of Law in Modern British Theatre0
Alisa Ballard Lin. Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor’s Mind in Russian Modernism0
From Sławomir Mrożek to Count Zelinsky: Polish Connections in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia0
Teaching Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced: Navigating Islamophobia and Orientalism in the Drama Classroom0
Bonnie Marranca. Timelines: writings and conversations0
Martin Revermann. Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics0
Denise Varney, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–20180
Michelle Liu Carriger. Theatricality of the Closet: Fashion, Performance and Subjectivity Between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan0
Learning to Love Medea: The Hungry Woman, Mojada, and the Pedagogy of Adaptation0
Hershini Bhana Young. Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance0
Rebecca Benzie. Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play0
Unwriting the Future: Russell Hoban’s Stage Adaptation of Riddley Walker0
Katherine Brewer Ball. The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape0
Lindsay Goss. F*ck the Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War0
Zosia Kuczyńska. Brian Friel’s Models of Influence0
Black Queer Cosmologies, Sonic Geographies, and Embodied Entanglement in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays0
Grief Unspoken in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living0
Rashna Darius Nicholson, The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853–1893)0
Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, eds. Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama0
Exhibiting the Nation: Identity and (Post)colonial Aesthetics in Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad0
Shepard’s Political Economy: Curse of the Starving Class in Neoliberal Capitalism0
Brandon Woolf, Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin0
Utpal Dutt’s Political Jatra and Modern Indian Drama: Marxist Reinventions of Theatrical Tradition0
Dispute in the Diaspora: Metaphor and Contradiction in Twenty-First-Century Arab American Family Dramas0
Michael Malek Najjar, Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists0
Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris, eds. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century.0
Takeo Rivera. Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity0
Touching Back while Black: Self-Defence and the Politics of Black US Citizenship in Paul Green’s In Abraham’s Bosom0
The “Miracle” of the Russian Revolution: The Mystery Play in Early Soviet Culture0
“Nobody Loves Me and the Sun’s Going to Kill Me”: Toward a Darker Ecodramaturgy0
Why Natasha Can’t Sing: Rethinking Cross-Genre Adaptation with Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 18120
Elizabeth Brewer Redwine. Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre0
Lisa Biggs. The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation0
“Those Who Wait, Burn”: New Penelopes in Plays by Sarah Ruhl, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Naomi Wallace0
Isaiah Matthew Wooden. Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture0
Drew Lichtenberg. The Piscatorbühne Century: Politics and Aesthetics in the Modern Theater after 19270
Outstanding Article Award for 20220
Family, Community, Country, and Race: The State of the Nation Plays of Roy Williams and Clint Dyer0
Arnold Aronson. Fifty Key Theatre Designers0
Coda: Leopoldstadt : Seeing Is Believing0
Understanding Drama as Performance Texts: Teaching Gao Xingjian’s Plays of the 1980s0
Julia A. Walker. Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage0
Daniel Sack. Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying0
Beth Wynstra. Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill0
Front Matter0
Michelle Castañeda. Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law0
Challenging the “Puritan Dread of the Theatre”: The Forgotten Legacy of Henry Arthur Jones’s Saints and Sinners (1884)0
The Politics and Ethics of Collective Memory and Forgetting in Christina Reid’s My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?0
Debating Decolonization: The Use of Postcolonial Metatheatre in Murray Carlin’s Not Now, Sweet Desdemona0
Onnagata, Grotesque Beauty, and Aging: Reading Tennessee Williams’s Kabuki-Inspired Plays0
Teaching Six Characters in Search of an Author in the Age of #MeToo0
Alisa Zhulina. Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life0
Ben Leeming. Aztec Antichrist: Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico0
Catherine Hindson. Theatre in the Chocolate Factory: Performance at Cadbury’s Bournville, 1900–19350
A Dramatic Answer to The Hard Problem0
Kristin Gjesdal, The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche0
Corey Wakeling. Beckett’s Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure0
Jonas Barish. The Antitheatrical Prejudice0
Broderick D.V. Chow. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity0
May Summer Farnsworth. Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico0
Shannon Walsh, Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout0
Draperies and Reveries: W.B. Yeats and the Aesthetic of the Background0
Foregrounding (Lost) Rituals in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Transatlantic Gesture0
Sixty Years of Stoppard0
Michael Shane Boyle. The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production and Supply Chain Capitalism0
Decolonizing Curriculum: Teaching the Twenty-First-Century Dramatic Canon0
Barry Day, ed. Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre0
Martin Harries. Theater after Film0
Patrick Mckelvey. Disability Works: Performance after Rehabilitation0
Dorothy Chansky. Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre0
The “Nature of Theatre”: Herder’s Pursuit of a Human Theatre0
Conrad Alexandrowicz. Performing the Nonhuman: Towards a Theatre of Transformation0
Bertolt Brecht’s “Niobes”: Example, Interruption, and Model0
“The Point Is, You Don’t Seem to Have Learnt Anything”: Reimagining J.B. Priestley’sAn Inspector Callsas a BrechtianLehrstückfor the Middle Classes0
Interface Theatre: Watching Ourselves Disappear0
Transculturation, Reclamation, and Adaptation: Approaches to Teaching Father Comes Home from the Wars0
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