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Volume 37

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Issue 2

Censorship/Public Censure and Performance Today: Special Issue Introduction

David Bisaha and Pria Ruth Williams

EDITORIAL

Remembering Censorship in the World Premiere of Seán O’Casey’s The Drums of Father Ned: Lafayette, Indiana, 1959

Nic Barilar

ARTICLE

The Stage as Networked Battleground: Dissent and Censorship in Contemporary Canadian Theatre and Performance

Donia Mounsef

ARTICLE

Censor/Censure: A Roundtable

Pria Ruth Williams, Claire Syler, Amy Hughes, Karen Jean Martinson, David Bisaha

ARTICLE

Which of These Are Censorship? The Divide Between Prior Restraint and Soft Censorship

Rowan Jalso

ARTICLE

How Can an Artist Respond to Censorship? The Dilemma That Faces Contemporary Creatives in the UK

Patrizia Paolini

ARTICLE

The LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project: A Roundtable Conversation

Benjamin Gillespie

QUEER VOICES

Life is Drag: Documenting Spectacle as Resistance An Interview with Rachel Rampleman

Benjamin Gillespie

QUEER VOICES

Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists. Michael Malek Najjar. Critical Companions Series. London: Methuen Drama, 2021; Pp. xvi + 237.

Megan Stahl

BOOK REVIEW

Lessons from Our Students: Meditations on Performance Pedagogy. Stacey Cabaj and Andrea Odinov. New York: Routledge, 2024; Pp. 126

Samantha Briggs

BOOK REVIEW

Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene. Angenette Spalink. Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance Series, no. 3. New York: Routledge, 2024; Pp. 116.

Erika Guay

BOOK REVIEW

Fauci and Kramer

Janet Werther

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

I. B. Hopkins

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Melissa Sturges

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Issue 1

Editorial Introduction

Bess Rowen and Benjamin Gillespie

EDITORIAL

A Comedy of Sorts: Race, Gender, and Satire in Slave Play

Catherine Heiner

ARTICLE

Performing Girlhood, Riffing on Lolita: Fornés and Vogel Respond to Nabokov

Alisa Zhulina

ARTICLE

“It’s Cumming yet for a’ that”: Bringing the Scottish Bard to Life in the 21st Century

Thomas Keith

ARTICLE

Historiographic Metatheatre and Narrative Closure in Pippin’s Alternate “Theo Ending”

Allan Johnson

ARTICLE

“Each One, Teach One”: Interview with Harvey Fierstein

James F. Wilson

QUEER VOICES

Artists as Theorists in Their Craft: Interview with James Ijames

Bess Rowen

QUEER VOICES

The Spectacular Theatre of Frank Joseph Galati: Reshaping American Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Julie Jackson. London: Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2022. 215pp.

Jane Barnette

BOOK REVIEW

Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief. Lindsay Brandon Hunter. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2021; Pp. 192.

Nicholas Orvis

BOOK REVIEW

Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity. Ryan Donovan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023; Pp. 316.

Zach Dailey

BOOK REVIEW

Precarious Forms. Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas. Evanston. Candice Amich. Northwestern University Press: 2020; Pp. 232.

Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas

BOOK REVIEW

Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender Bending. Meredith Heller. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020; Pp. 236.

Kelly I. Aliano

BOOK REVIEW

New England Theatre Journal: A fond farewell 1989-2023

Stuart J. Hecht, (former) Editor in Chief, New England Theatre Journal

NEW ENGLAND THEATRE JOURNAL

New England Theatre in Review

Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco, (former) Editor, New England Theatre in Review

NEW ENGLAND THEATRE REVIEW

American Repertory Theater . Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2023–2024

Stephen Kuehler
Harvard University

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Barrington Stage. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 2023

Steven Otfinoski
Fairfield University

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm). Warwick, Rhode Island, 2023-24

Tom Grady. Bristol Community College

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Greater Boston’s Independent Theatres. 2023-24 Season

Paul E. Fallon. Cambridge, Massachusetts

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Hartford Stage. Hartford, Connecticut, 2023-24

Jan Mason
Western Connecticut State University

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

The Huntington. Boston, Massachusetts, 2023-24

Paul E. Fallon
Cambridge, Massachusetts

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Long Wharf Theatre. New Haven, Connecticut, 2023-24

Karl G. Ruling
Milford, Connecticut

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Portland Stage Company. Portland, Maine, 2023-24

Megan Grumbling
University of New England, Southern Maine Community College

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Shakespeare & Company. Lenox, Massachusetts, 2023

Steven Ofinoski
Fairfield University

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Trinity Repertory Theatre Company. Providence, Rhode Island, 2023-24

Tom Grady
Bristol Community College

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Vermont Stage. Burlington, Vermont, 2023-24

Angela Sweigart-Gallagher
St. Lawrence University

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Yale Repertory Theatre. New Haven, Connecticut, 2023-24

Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco, emerita
Fairfield University

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Journal of American
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Journal of American Drama and Theatre is a publication of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.

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