Theatre Survey

Papers
(The TQCC of Theatre Survey 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century By Paula R. Backscheider. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022; pp. xv + 438, 12 illustrations. $102 hardcover; $1
Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean Edited by Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024; pp. x + 459, 1
Review Essay: Schoolrooms, Stages, and Scripts of Color-Based Slavery and Racial Capitalism - Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England By Urvashi Chakravarty. 1
Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene By Angenette Spalink. Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance. Abingdon, Oxon and New York, NY: Routledge, 201
Theatricality of the Closet: Fashion, Performance, and Subjectivity between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan By Michelle Liu Carriger. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2023; pp. vii + 2591
Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspapers in New York By Jordana Cox. Journalism and Democracy. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023; pp. xiii + 168. $90.00 c1
Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit By Robin Bernstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024; pp. xiii + 293, 8 color plates, 36 halftones. $27.50 clo0
Broadway Goes to War: American Theater during World War II By Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021; pp. x + 290, 11 illustrations. $35.00 cloth, $35 e0
Mussolini's Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics By Patricia Gaborik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. xiii + 312, 20 illustrations, 13 tables. $39.99 cloth, $32 e-book.0
Disappearing Mermaids: Staging White Women's Mobility through Aquatic Performance at the New York Hippodrome0
Yeats's Photographs and the World Theatre of Images0
The Spirit in the Little Theatre (1917)0
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Staging Hurston's Heaven: Ethnographic Performance from the Pulpit to the Pews0
Performance Archives0
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The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, and Nietzsche By Kristin Gjesdal. Oxford University Press. Oxford: United Kingdom, 2020; pp. xvii + 219, 8 illustrations. $74 cloth.0
Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances By Jill Stevenson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022; pp. xii + 230, 7 illustrations. $75 cloth, $59.95 e-book.0
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Memories of Wars and Revolutions in Wang Chong’s Theatre0
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation By Julius B. Fleming Jr. New York: New York University Press, 2022; pp. v + 301. $89 cloth, $29 paper, $29 e-book.0
Pioneering Turkish Muslim Actresses: Afife Jale and Bedia Muvahhit's Trajectories in the Turkish Stage0
Blindness, Excrement, and Abjection in the Theatre: ASTR Presidential Address, 30 October 20210
The Contemporary History Play: Staging English and American Pasts By Benjamin Poore. Methuen Drama Engage. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024; pp. xii + 250. $115 cloth, $103.50 e-book.0
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LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press0
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Editorial: Staging Revolutions0
Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen By Jane Barnette. New York: Routledge, 2024; pp. ix + 192, 10 illustrations. $43.99 paperback, $144 cloth, $43.99 p0
Ear Training for History: Listening to Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's Double-Voiced Aesthetics0
Staging Stalingrad: Building a Wartime Alliance, Pro-Soviet Propaganda, and the Trope of the Two Americas, 1942–19470
“Put money in thy purse. Follow thou the wars”: Othello, the Mexican–American War, and Manifest Destiny0
A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk & US Latinidad By Richard T. Rodríguez. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022; pp. xv + 264, 28 illustrations. $99.95 cloth0
“Artistic” Femininity: Republican Nandan and the Discourse of Xiqu “Aestheticism”0
Greasers, Bandidos , and Squatters under Duress: Containing Latinidad in Mid-Nineteenth-Century California0
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Call for Papers [deadline extended]0
The Avant-Garde Practices of Gwendolen Bishop – ERRATUM0
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century Edited by Peggy Farfan and Lesley Ferris. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp. ix + 316. $90 cloth, $0
Performing Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Britain By Mark C. Chambers. Early Social Performance. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2024; pp. ix + 200, 5 illustrations. $136 cloth; $136 e-book.0
Postdramatic Dramaturgies: Resonances between Asia and Europe Edited by Kai Tuchmann. Theater. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022; pp. xii + 294, 12 illustrations. $45.00 cloth, free e-book.0
Performance and Its Opposition0
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Edited by Leanne Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller. London: Methuen Drama, 2021; pp. xi + 444. $100 cloth, $34.95 paper, $31.45 e-book.0
S pecial I ssue of T heatre 0
An Endless Capacity for Dissembling: Representing Teenage Girls on the American Stage from The Children's Hour through If Pretty H0
Staging Restoration Comedy: The Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967–2019 By David Roberts. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024; pp. ix + 90. $49.99 cloth, $39.99 e-book.0
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Theatre across Oceans: Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange, 1890–1925 By Nic Leonhardt. Transnational Theatre Histories. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021; pp. xvi + 336, 19 illustrations. $0
Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions By Fintan Walsh. Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances. London: Methuen Drama, 2023, pp. xiv + 230, 17 illustrations. $115.00 cloth, $0
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The Lines between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment By Bess Rowen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp. x + 247, 1 illustration. $80 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.0
Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation By Jacqueline Shea Murphy. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2023; pp. xiv + 393, 44 b/w photos. $140 cloth, $35 paper, $350
Reimagining, Reclaiming, and Retelling0
Actor Training in Anglophone Countries: Past, Present, and Future By Peter Zazzali. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies. London: Routledge, 2022; pp. xxii + 229, 34 illustrations. $10
Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style By Joshua Javier Guzmán. Minoritarian Aesthetics. New York: New York University Press, 2024; pp. viii + 247, 30 illustrations. $89 cloth; 0
Made-Up Asians: Yellowface during the Exclusion Era By Esther Kim Lee. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022; pp. xiii + 268, 23 illustrations. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.0
Njoki McElroy’s Radical Oral Interpretation of Literature0
Gender and Nation as Symbolic Challenge: The British Reception of Swedish Playwright Anne Charlotte Leffler’s True Women0
Jacques Copeau's “The Spirit in the Little Theatre”: Contexts and Texts0
In Concert: Performing Musical Persona By Philip Auslander. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp. x + 293, 22 illustrations. $90 cloth, $39.95 paper, $39.95 e-book.0
Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad By David Savran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. xvi + 328. $35 cloth; $23.99 e-book.0
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Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England Edited by Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin. Cultures of Play. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021; pp. 332. $136 cloth, €108.99 e-book.0
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives By Paola S. Hernández. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022; pp. viii + 219, 13 illustrations. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 pape0
The People and Places of Experimental Theatre Scholarship: A Computational Overview0
Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists By Michael Malek Najjar. Critical Companions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, pp. xvi + 237, 5 illustrations. $1150
Performing Midsommar: Sweden Nationalism, Folkloric Pageantry, and the Political Power of Symbolic Divergence0
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Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin By Brandon Woolf. Performance Works. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. xii + 268, 24 illustrations. $99.95 clot0
Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev Edited by Dassia N. Posner and Kevin Bartig with Maria De Simone. Russian Music Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021; pp. xxx0
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The Race for Rehabilitation: Sign-Mime, the National Theatre of the Deaf, and Cold War Internationalism0
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus Edited by Gillian Arrighi and Jim Davis. Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. xxxiv + 292, 13 illustr0
Claiming Ancient Egypt: Operetta ‘Aida and the Making of Modern Egyptians0
Assembling the Past0
Changing the Musical’s Major: Beautiful and Fun Home Redefine Feminist Historiography0
Send in the Clowness: The Problematic Origins of Female Circus Clowns0
The Emergence of the Integrated Musical: Otto Harbach, Oratorical Theory, and the Cinema0
Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689–1800 By Chelsea Phillips. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 2022; pp. xiv + 287. $120.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, $38.95 e-b0
Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories, 1951–1977 By Barry Houlihan. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021; pp. xiv + 275, $109.99 cloth, $109.99 paper, $84.99 e-boo0
William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, or the “Real” Sherlock Holmes: Seeking Reality in Materiality0
Stage Echoes: Tracing the Pantomime Harlequinade through Comic Ballet, Trap Work, and Silent Film0
Playing the Police with the Agitprop Troupes of Weimar Germany0
Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage By Masi Asare. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024; pp. xvii + 283, 18 illustrations. $104.95 cloth, $27.95 paper.0
Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater By Carla Della Gatta. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023; pp. xiii + 265. $95.00 cloth, $39.95 paper.0
Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era Edited by Xiaomei Chen, Tarryn Li-Min Chun, and Siyuan Liu. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020
Postdramatic Theatre and Form Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf. Methuen Drama Engage. London: Methuen Drama, 2019; pp. xi + 266. $115.00 cloth, $40.95 paper, $36.85 e-boo0
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Staging the Entangled Human–Natural–Technological Worlds in Jungle Book Reimagined0
A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present Edited by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. cix + 519. $105 cloth, e-book $119.99.0
Performing Power: The Political Secrets of Gustav III (1771–1792) By Maria Berlova. Edited by Michael Kroetch. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021; pp. viii + 242. $136 cloth, $48.95 e-book.0
The Avant-Garde Practices of Gwendolen Bishop0
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The Theatre of Nuclear Science: Weapons, Power, and the Scientists behind it All By Jeanne Tiehen. Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies. London: Routledge, 2021; pp. 166. $170.00 cl0
Special Issue of Theatre Survey0
Street Theatre and the Production of Postindustrial Space: Working Memories By David Calder. Theatre: Theory—Practice—Performance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019; pp. x + 205, 21 illust0
Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism By Scott Magelssen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020; pp. xii + 192, 12 illustrations. $75 cloth, $29.95 paper, $29.95 e-book.0
Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre W. B. Worthen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. vii + 271, 11 illustrations. $105 cloth, $29.99 paper, $24 e-book.0
The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust By Grzegorz Niziołek. Translated by Ursula Phillips. Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance. London: Methuen Drama, 2019; pp. xii + 308, 63 illustrations. $10
Theorizing Performance Archives through the Critic's Labor0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater By Joseph Cermatori. Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021; pp. xxii + 298, 10 illustrations. $37 paper, $37 e-book.0
Antitheatrical Prejudice: From Parish Priests to Diocesan Rituals in Early Modern France0
Rescuing Richard Cœur de Lion : Rivalry, Rehearsal, and Performance at Sheridan's Drury Lane0
(Re)Imagining the Polis: Audience Participation as Postdramatic Discourse0
Recruiting Places: Pearl Primus's Plans for Global Activism through Community-Engaged Dance Theatre0
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Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research Miguel Escobar Varela. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp. viii + 222, 21 illustrations, 13 datasets, 4 code samples, 4 vid0
Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance By Kellen Hoxworth. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024, pp. 280, 20 b/w halftones. $100 cloth, $36 paper, $36 e-book.0
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Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage By Julia A. Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. xiii + 299, 20 illustrations. $99.99 cloth, $99.99 e-book.0
From the Vic to the Hollywood Bowl0
Reclamation0
Love Me: From Politics to Ethics at the Berliner Ensemble0
Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot By Kyla Wazana Tompkins. New York: NYU Press, 2024; pp. 267, 24 illustrations. $89 cloth; $30 paper; $30 e-book.0
Theatre & Medicine By Stanton B. Garner Jr. Theatre &. London: Bloomsbury, 2023; pp. x + 94 pages. $12.95 paper; $11.65 e-book. - Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Moder0
Crossing Collaborative Borders: The Making and Becoming of ÓRALE! by David Herrera Performance Company and El Vez, the Mexican Elvis0
Parables, Fairy Tales, and the Stasi: The Liedertheater of Gerhard Gundermann’s Brigade Feuerstein0
Anticipation0
Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater By Katherine Schaap Williams Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021; pp. xiii + 309. $59.95 cloth, $38.99 e-bo0
Radio for the Millions: Hindi–Urdu Broadcasting across Borders By Isabel Huacuja Alonso. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023; pp. xii + 295. $140.00 cloth, $35.00 paper, $34.99 e-book.0
Nobodies and Somebodies: Embodying Precarity on the Early Modern English Stage0
Performing Celebrity and Anna Renzi's Cross-Dressed Performance as Ergindo0
Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre By Dorothy Chansky. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023; pp. xi + 329. $139.99 cloth, $109.00 e-book.0
Verfremdungseffekt or Entfremdungseffekt ? A Study of Brecht’s Manuscripts on Chinese Theatre0
Queer Performance and Radical Possibilities: Bill Butler and the Post-Stonewall Roller Disco0
Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern English Imaginary: The Performance of Difference By Frederika Elizabeth Bain. Late Tudor and Stuart Drama. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter / Medieva0
The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization By Sean Metzger. Indiana University Press. Bloomington: Indiana, 2020; pp. vii + 262, 35 illustrations. $75 cloth, $25 paper, $120
Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe By Julie Stone Peters. Law and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; 0
The British Council and the Marat/Sade Controversy0
Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity By Ryan Donovan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023; pp. xiv + 316, 26 illustrations. $140.00 cloth; $43.99 paper; $36.99 e-book.0
The Queen of the Vic: Eliza Vincent's Actress-Management of the Victoria Theatre, London, 1841–18560
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The Song Is You: Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance By Bradley Rogers. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2020; pp. xiv + 276, 10
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The Constructive Deconstruction of Mary Overlie's Six Viewpoints0
Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific By Diana Looser. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp. 358, 31 illustrations. $80 cloth, 0
Reinterpreting, Reimagining, and Reckoning0
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Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688–1763 By Mattie Burkert. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2021; pp. ix + 284, 7 illustrations. $950
Beckett beyond the Normal Edited by Seán Kennedy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020; pp. ix + 155. $100 cloth, $24.95 paper, $100 e-book.0
Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance By Hershini Bhana Young. Crip. New York: NYU Press, 2023; pp. viii + 307, 17 illustrations. $89.000
Richard Pryor’s Sonic Acts: Epistemological Rupture at the Hollywood Bowl, 18 September 19770
Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico By May Summer Farnsworth. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023; 0
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