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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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
Translating and Imaging China: Anthologies of Modern Chinese Drama in English Translation2
The Afterlives of Enslavement: Histories of Racial Injustice in Contemporary Black British Theatre1
Louise Owen. Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain1
Ric Knowles. International Theatre Festivals and 21st-Century Interculturalism1
Adrienne Kennedy. Collected Plays & Other Writings1
Pioneering Feminist Realism in Minna Canth’s Työmiehen Vaimo [The Worker’s Wife] (1885)1
Teaching The Colored Museum and Its Doubles: Black Queer Theatrical Aesthetics in Bootycandy and Ain’t No Mo’1
Debra Caplan and Rachel Merrill Moss, eds. The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed the World1
Ryan Donovan. Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity1
Finding T.S. Eliot’s “Little Devils”: Marionettes and Sweeney Agonistes1
Katherine Brewer Ball. The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape1
Staging Socrates: The Public Intellectual and Democracy in Maxwell Anderson’sBarefoot in Athens1
Katie N. Johnson. Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway1
Matthew Sturgis. Oscar Wilde: A Life1
A Cancelled Lesson in Plurality: Hannah Arendt and The Situation1
Christin Essin, Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor1
Patrick Mckelvey. Disability Works: Performance after Rehabilitation0
Onnagata, Grotesque Beauty, and Aging: Reading Tennessee Williams’s Kabuki-Inspired Plays0
Macelle Mahala. Black Theater, City Life: African American Arts Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies0
Jonas Barish. The Antitheatrical Prejudice0
Censorship Public and Censorship Private: Authority, Authenticity, and Acceptability in the Early Production History of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!0
The Politics and Ethics of Collective Memory and Forgetting in Christina Reid’s My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?0
Xiaomei Chen. Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture0
Patricia Gaborik, Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics0
Outstanding Article Awards for 20240
“Those Who Wait, Burn”: New Penelopes in Plays by Sarah Ruhl, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Naomi Wallace0
Conrad Alexandrowicz. Performing the Nonhuman: Towards a Theatre of Transformation0
Labour of Love: Alienation, Race, and Family in Julia Cho’s Aubergine0
Pausing on a Sunday: Sondheim and the Composition of the Secular in the American Musical0
Bonnie Marranca. Timelines: writings and conversations0
Diana Looser. Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific0
Julia A. Walker. Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage0
Takeo Rivera. Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity0
Katrina M. Phillips, Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History0
Erratum0
Outstanding Article Award for 20230
Interface Theatre: Watching Ourselves Disappear0
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance0
Leah Sidi. Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life: Theatre, Thought, and Mental Suffering0
Front Matter0
Decolonizing Curriculum: Teaching the Twenty-First-Century Dramatic Canon0
Emotionally Uninhabitable? Dramatizing Environmental Destruction and Contamination0
Outstanding Article Award for 20220
Zander Brietzke, Magnum Opus: The Cycle Plays of Eugene O’Neill0
Lindsay Goss. F*ck the Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War0
Ian Ward. The Play of Law in Modern British Theatre0
New Approaches to Harold Pinter0
Alex Ferrone, Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London0
William A. Everett. The Year that Made the Musical: 1924 and the Glamour of Musical Theatre0
Exhibiting the Nation: Identity and (Post)colonial Aesthetics in Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad0
Denise Varney, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–20180
Michael Shane Boyle. The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production and Supply Chain Capitalism0
Bess Rowen. The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment0
Tank Man as Icon and “Crisis Actor” in Lucy Kirkwood’sChimericaand Lauren Yee’sThe Great Leap0
Ashley E. Lucas, Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration0
Stefka Mihaylova. Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century0
Corey Wakeling. Beckett’s Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure0
Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson, Naomi Paxton, and Claire Warden, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre0
Stephen Abbott. The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics0
Cosmos and History in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman0
The “Miracle” of the Russian Revolution: The Mystery Play in Early Soviet Culture0
The Kindness of Strangers: Eugenics and Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire0
Max Shulman. The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890–19400
Transculturation, Reclamation, and Adaptation: Approaches to Teaching Father Comes Home from the Wars0
Josephine Lee. Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater0
Bertolt Brecht’s “Niobes”: Example, Interruption, and Model0
The Mathematical Heart of Tom Stoppard0
Jordana Cox. Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York0
Rashna Darius Nicholson, The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853–1893)0
Katelyn Hale Wood, Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States0
Tina Post. Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression0
Grief Unspoken in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living0
“This Could Go On Forever”: Rethinking the End in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Apocalyptic Dramas0
“They Do Need You, Don’t They?”: Disability, Gender, and Care Work in World War I Conscription Dramas0
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder. The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism0
Hannah Simpson. Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of Witness: Pain in Postwar Francophone Drama0
Zosia Kuczyńska. Brian Friel’s Models of Influence0
The Tragedy of Extinction: Miranda Rose Hall’s A Play for the Living0
Foregrounding (Lost) Rituals in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Transatlantic Gesture0
Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar & Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett and Technology0
The Dialectical Image of White Masochism and the Fugitive Spectator: On Claudia Rankine’s The White Card0
Jeffery Kennedy. Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players0
Shepard’s Political Economy: Curse of the Starving Class in Neoliberal Capitalism0
Tracy C. Davis. Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform0
All the Vulnerable Boys: Child-Saving Conjured in Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf and Hiro Kanagawa’s Indian Arm0
Kristin Gjesdal, The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry0
Cognitive Ecology in Chantal Bilodeau’s Climate Change Theatre0
Understanding Drama as Performance Texts: Teaching Gao Xingjian’s Plays of the 1980s0
Deadly Pinter: Ghostly Precedents and New Possibilities for Staging0
Draperies and Reveries: W.B. Yeats and the Aesthetic of the Background0
Dispute in the Diaspora: Metaphor and Contradiction in Twenty-First-Century Arab American Family Dramas0
Ibsen Postcards / Postcard Ibsens: Domesticating Modernism0
Katarzyna Fazan, Michal Kobialka, and Bryce Lease, eds. A History of Polish Theatre0
Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, and Liyang Xia. Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces0
Catherine Hindson. Theatre in the Chocolate Factory: Performance at Cadbury’s Bournville, 1900–19350
Revisiting HIV/AIDS Theatre: Black and Queer Spatio-Temporalities in Cheryl L. West’s Before It Hits Home0
“A Leasing of Bodies”: Race, Medicine, and Radical Care in Jamie Lloyd’s Revival of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect0
(Re)Playing Kidwell and Sheppard’s Underground Railroad Game0
Miguel Escobar Varela, Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research0
Pandemic Remembered: Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918) Remedied0
Elizabeth T. Craft. Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage0
Peter P. Reed. Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance0
Annie Holt. Modernizing Costume Design, 1820–19200
Michael D’alessandro. Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835750
Jon D. Rossini. Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama0
Hana Worthen, Humanism, Drama, and Performance: Unwriting Theatre0
Olga Taxidou. Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality0
Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, eds. Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama0
Challenging the “Puritan Dread of the Theatre”: The Forgotten Legacy of Henry Arthur Jones’s Saints and Sinners (1884)0
Post-Auschwitz Dramaturgy: Toward the Later Edward Bond0
Esther Kim Lee. Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era0
Julia Jarcho. Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism0
The “Nature of Theatre”: Herder’s Pursuit of a Human Theatre0
Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms. Incarceration Games: A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance0
Juliet Guzzetta, The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy0
Debating Decolonization: The Use of Postcolonial Metatheatre in Murray Carlin’s Not Now, Sweet Desdemona0
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science0
Jonathan Shandell. Readying the Revolution: African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement0
Broderick D.V. Chow. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity0
Brandon Woolf, Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin0
Family, Community, Country, and Race: The State of the Nation Plays of Roy Williams and Clint Dyer0
Utpal Dutt’s Political Jatra and Modern Indian Drama: Marxist Reinventions of Theatrical Tradition0
Tarryn Li-Min Chun. Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China0
Michael Malek Najjar, Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists0
Contested Memories: Neoliberal Hegemony and British Postdramatic Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century0
Touching Back while Black: Self-Defence and the Politics of Black US Citizenship in Paul Green’s In Abraham’s Bosom0
Life in the Huddle: Risk, Representation, and the Labour of Athletic Practice in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves0
The Crucible of Art: Poetry, Ritual, and Parable in Arthur Miller0
“A Terrible Art of Sharp-Shooting at the Audience”: Teaching the Shock of Modernist Drama via the Play of Ideas0
Beth Wynstra. Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill0
S.E. Jackson, The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theatre and Thought0
Moira S. Fortin Cornejo. Rapa Nui Theatre: Staging Indigenous Identities in Easter Island0
Joseph Cermatori. Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb, eds. The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness, and Radical Performance0
Elizabeth Brewer Redwine. Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre0
David Clare, Fiona Mcdonagh, and Justine Nakase, eds. The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716–20160
Bethany Hughes. Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity0
Migrant Deaths and European Revenants in Thomas Köck’santigone. a requiem(2019): Sophocles’ Tragedy Recomposed and Decomposed0
David Bisaha. American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism0
Meredith Conti and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. eds. Theatre and the Macabre0
Arnold Aronson. Fifty Key Theatre Designers0
Theron Schmidt. The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear0
Martin Kagel and David Z. Saltz, eds. Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori0
The Astonishing Lives of the Ballets Russes in J.M. Barrie’s The Truth about the Russian Dancers0
Imagining and Reflecting Israel/Palestine in Naomi Wallace’s A State of Innocence0
Jackie Sibblies Drury and the Violence of Repetition0
Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand, eds. Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation0
Brent Salter. Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–19510
Performing the Other: Post-Humanism and Mediatized Senses in The Wooster Group’s Production of The Room0
J. Paul Halferty and Cathy Leeney, eds. Analysing Gender in Performance0
Shannon Jackson. Back Stages: Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life0
Hershini Bhana Young. Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance0
Martin Revermann. Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics0
Specialization on Stage: The Formation and Deformation of Knowledge in Hedda Gabler and A Dream Play0
Thrill Me: Queerness, Spectatorship, and the Utopian Performative in South Korean Musical Theatre0
“Forever Unliving and Yet Never Dead”: The Queerly Ecological Hauntings of Nathalie Claude’s The Salon Automaton0
Ulf Otto. The Theater of Electricity: Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century0
Cold War Diva: Medea, 19470
Peter W. Marx. Max Reinhardt: From Bourgeois Theater to Metropolitan Culture. Translated by Robert E. Goodwin0
“These People in This House”: Intermedial Approaches to Decentring the Domestic in Harold Pinter’s A Slight Ache and The Homecoming0
Dorothy Chansky. Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre0
Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation0
Founding Pedagogies of Modern Drama0
John Ireland. Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis: Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath0
Drew Lichtenberg. The Piscatorbühne Century: Politics and Aesthetics in the Modern Theater after 19270
Rebecca Benzie. Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play0
The Freedom Mythology of Father Comes Home from the Wars0
“Nobody Loves Me and the Sun’s Going to Kill Me”: Toward a Darker Ecodramaturgy0
Jesse Gardiner. Soviet Theatre during the Thaw: Aesthetics, Politics and Performance0
Michelle Liu Carriger. Theatricality of the Closet: Fashion, Performance and Subjectivity Between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan0
Barry Houlihan. Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories, 1951–19770
Daniel Sack. Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying0
Ryan Claycomb. In the Lurch: Verbatim Theatre and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation0
Teaching Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced: Navigating Islamophobia and Orientalism in the Drama Classroom0
OTAKAR ZICH. Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art: Theoretical Dramaturgy0
A Mother’s Touch: Ethics and Maternal Corporeality in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language0
Gustavo Rodríguez Martín, ed. Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World0
The Haunting of the Antebellum South: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate as a Gothic Memory Archive0
Alisa Zhulina. Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life0
Sergio Blanco’s Tebas Land: Staging an Authentic Fiction0
Nic Leonhardt. Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange (1890–1925).0
“Something Is Happening”: Medical Realism and the Problem of Acting in Harold Pinter’sA Kind of Alaska0
Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li, Eds. Realisms in East Asian Performance0
Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell. Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance0
Out of Place, Out of Control: Transgression in Pearl Cleage’s Bourbon at the Border and Flyin’ West0
Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris, eds. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century.0
May Summer Farnsworth. Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico0
Marcia Noe. Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre0
Christine Bold. “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits, 1880s1930s0
Shannon Walsh, Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout0
Jonas Tinius. State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration0
Lisa Biggs. The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation0
“The Point Is, You Don’t Seem to Have Learnt Anything”: Reimagining J.B. Priestley’sAn Inspector Callsas a BrechtianLehrstückfor the Middle Classes0
Destined to Hope or Remorse: T.S. Eliot, Francis Bacon, and Their Furies0
Xiaomei Chen, Tarryn Li-Min Chun, and Siyuan Liu, eds. Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theatres of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era0
John Lahr. Arthur Miller: American Witness0
Why Natasha Can’t Sing: Rethinking Cross-Genre Adaptation with Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 18120
“You Are against UK Law”: Clean Break Theatre Company’s Carceral Dramaturgy0
Shattering Normalcy: Disability and Queerness in Tennessee Williams’s One Arm0
Christopher Morash, Yeats on Theatre0
“A Positive Statement of a Negative Thing”: Nietzschean Eternal Recurrence as Dramatic Form in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot0
Learning to Love Medea: The Hungry Woman, Mojada, and the Pedagogy of Adaptation0
Teaching Six Characters in Search of an Author in the Age of #MeToo0
Carrie J. Preston. Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice0
Barry Day, ed. Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre0
Michelle Castañeda. Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law0
Lindsay Brandon Hunter, Playing Real: Mimesis, Media and Mischief0
Anita Gonzalez. Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea0
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard: A Life0
Martin Wagner. A Stage for Debate: The Political Significance of Vienna’s Burgtheater, 1814–18670
Unwriting the Future: Russell Hoban’s Stage Adaptation of Riddley Walker0
Black Queer Cosmologies, Sonic Geographies, and Embodied Entanglement in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays0
Social Reform in the Plays of Mohan Rakesh0
M. Myrta Leslie Santana Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba0
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