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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Christin Essin, Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor1
Finding T.S. Eliot’s “Little Devils”: Marionettes and Sweeney Agonistes1
Sharell D. Luckett, David Román, and Isaiah Matthew Wooden, eds. Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration1
David Kornhaber. Theatre & Knowledge1
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
Teaching The Colored Museum and Its Doubles: Black Queer Theatrical Aesthetics in Bootycandy and Ain’t No Mo’1
Matthew Sturgis. Oscar Wilde: A Life1
Babak Rahimi, ed. Theater in the Middle East: Between Performance and Politics.1
Katie N. Johnson. Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway1
A Fan through the Ages: Layers of Adaptation in SITI Company’s Hanjo1
Ric Knowles. International Theatre Festivals and 21st-Century Interculturalism1
Ryan Donovan. Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity1
Denise Varney, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–20181
Translating and Imaging China: Anthologies of Modern Chinese Drama in English Translation1
S.N. Behrman, Comedy, and the Extermination of the Jews: Broadway, Christmas Eve, 19341
Louise Owen. Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain1
Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson, Naomi Paxton, and Claire Warden, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre0
Evert Sprinchorn. Ibsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Works.0
Cosmos and History in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman0
Tracy C. Davis. Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform0
“You Are against UK Law”: Clean Break Theatre Company’s Carceral Dramaturgy0
Narrating Arab-American Transnational Identity in Leila Buck’s Hkeelee [Talk to Me]0
Transculturation, Reclamation, and Adaptation: Approaches to Teaching Father Comes Home from the Wars0
Ashley E. Lucas, Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration0
Thrill Me: Queerness, Spectatorship, and the Utopian Performative in South Korean Musical Theatre0
Jordana Cox. Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York0
Meredith Conti and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. eds. Theatre and the Macabre0
“A Positive Statement of a Negative Thing”: Nietzschean Eternal Recurrence as Dramatic Form in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot0
Destined to Hope or Remorse: T.S. Eliot, Francis Bacon, and Their Furies0
Post-Auschwitz Dramaturgy: Toward the Later Edward Bond0
Black Indigeneity and Anti-Colonial Rebellion in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones0
Martin Wagner. A Stage for Debate: The Political Significance of Vienna’s Burgtheater, 1814–18670
Alisa Zhulina. Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life0
Debating Decolonization: The Use of Postcolonial Metatheatre in Murray Carlin’s Not Now, Sweet Desdemona0
Shana Redmond. Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson.0
Zosia Kuczyńska. Brian Friel’s Models of Influence0
Esther Kim Lee. Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era0
Bradley Rogers. This Song Is You: Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance0
Christopher Morash, Yeats on Theatre0
Shannon Jackson. Back Stages: Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life0
Migrant Deaths and European Revenants in Thomas Köck’santigone. a requiem(2019): Sophocles’ Tragedy Recomposed and Decomposed0
“Nobody Loves Me and the Sun’s Going to Kill Me”: Toward a Darker Ecodramaturgy0
Lisa Woynarski. Ecodramaturgies: Theatre, Performance and Climate Change0
Performing the Other: Post-Humanism and Mediatized Senses in The Wooster Group’s Production of The Room0
John Lahr. Arthur Miller: American Witness0
The Politics and Ethics of Collective Memory and Forgetting in Christina Reid’s My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?0
Social Reform in the Plays of Mohan Rakesh0
Katrina M. Phillips, Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History0
Kristin Gjesdal, The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche0
“These People in This House”: Intermedial Approaches to Decentring the Domestic in Harold Pinter’s A Slight Ache and The Homecoming0
Labour of Love: Alienation, Race, and Family in Julia Cho’s Aubergine0
Takeo Rivera. Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity0
Olga Taxidou. Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality0
“The Point Is, You Don’t Seem to Have Learnt Anything”: Reimagining J.B. Priestley’sAn Inspector Callsas a BrechtianLehrstückfor the Middle Classes0
Dorothy Chansky. Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre0
The Dialectical Image of White Masochism and the Fugitive Spectator: On Claudia Rankine’s The White Card0
Jesse Gardiner. Soviet Theatre during the Thaw: Aesthetics, Politics and Performance0
David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb, eds. The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness, and Radical Performance0
April Sizemore-Barber. Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation0
Pausing on a Sunday: Sondheim and the Composition of the Secular in the American Musical0
Juliet Guzzetta, The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy0
Artaud’s Surgical Theatre: War, Medicine, and Regeneration0
Decolonizing Curriculum: Teaching the Twenty-First-Century Dramatic Canon0
Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell. Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance0
Outstanding Article Award for 20230
A New Feminist Absurd?: Women’s Protest, Fury, and Futility in Contemporary American Theatre0
Patricia Gaborik, Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics0
Ian Ward. The Play of Law in Modern British Theatre0
Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris, eds. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century.0
Josephine Lee. Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater0
Annie Holt. Modernizing Costume Design, 1820–19200
Interface Theatre: Watching Ourselves Disappear0
Diana Looser. Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific0
Candice Amich. Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas.0
Michael Mckinnie. Theatre in Market Economies0
Touching Back while Black: Self-Defence and the Politics of Black US Citizenship in Paul Green’s In Abraham’s Bosom0
Julia A. Walker. Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage0
Grief Unspoken in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living0
Leah Sidi. Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life: Theatre, Thought, and Mental Suffering0
Barry Houlihan. Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories, 1951–19770
The Mathematical Heart of Tom Stoppard0
Contested Memories: Neoliberal Hegemony and British Postdramatic Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century0
Utpal Dutt’s Political Jatra and Modern Indian Drama: Marxist Reinventions of Theatrical Tradition0
Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation0
Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand, eds. Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation0
A Mother’s Touch: Ethics and Maternal Corporeality in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language0
Sunny Stalter-Pace. Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance0
Catherine Cole. Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice0
The “Miracle” of the Russian Revolution: The Mystery Play in Early Soviet Culture0
Barry Day, ed. Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre0
Elizabeth Brewer Redwine. Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre0
Matthew Franks. Subscription Theater: Democracy and Drama in Britain and Ireland, 1880–19390
Hannah Simpson. Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of Witness: Pain in Postwar Francophone Drama0
S.E. Jackson, The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theatre and Thought0
David Bisaha. American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism0
Sarah Mackenzie. Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada: A Mechanism of Decolonization0
Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar & Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett and Technology0
Jeffery Kennedy. Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players0
Femi Osofisan’s Evolving Global Consciousness in Four Adaptations0
Gendered Violence and Neoliberal Desaparecidos in Luis Cano’s Socavón0
La Donna L. Forsgren, Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance0
“Tangled Passions”: Realism and Lyricism in the Plays of Peter Gill0
Martin Revermann. Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics0
Marlis Schweitzer. Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century0
Tina Post. Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression0
Ubu Roi in W.B. Yeats’s The Green Helmet and The Player Queen0
Hershini Bhana Young. Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance0
Life in the Huddle: Risk, Representation, and the Labour of Athletic Practice in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves0
Kareem Khubchandani. Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife.0
Lindsay Brandon Hunter, Playing Real: Mimesis, Media and Mischief0
Michelle Liu Carriger. Theatricality of the Closet: Fashion, Performance and Subjectivity Between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan0
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance0
Joseph Cermatori. Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
“Those Who Wait, Burn”: New Penelopes in Plays by Sarah Ruhl, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Naomi Wallace0
Sergio Blanco’s Tebas Land: Staging an Authentic Fiction0
Zander Brietzke, Magnum Opus: The Cycle Plays of Eugene O’Neill0
Katelyn Hale Wood, Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States0
Rashna Darius Nicholson, The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853–1893)0
Deadly Pinter: Ghostly Precedents and New Possibilities for Staging0
Founding Pedagogies of Modern Drama0
Tank Man as Icon and “Crisis Actor” in Lucy Kirkwood’sChimericaand Lauren Yee’sThe Great Leap0
Revisiting HIV/AIDS Theatre: Black and Queer Spatio-Temporalities in Cheryl L. West’s Before It Hits Home0
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard: A Life0
Understanding Drama as Performance Texts: Teaching Gao Xingjian’s Plays of the 1980s0
Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, eds. Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama0
Censorship Public and Censorship Private: Authority, Authenticity, and Acceptability in the Early Production History of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!0
Bess Rowen. The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment0
Challenging the “Puritan Dread of the Theatre”: The Forgotten Legacy of Henry Arthur Jones’s Saints and Sinners (1884)0
Bonnie Marranca. Timelines: writings and conversations0
Dispute in the Diaspora: Metaphor and Contradiction in Twenty-First-Century Arab American Family Dramas0
The “Nature of Theatre”: Herder’s Pursuit of a Human Theatre0
Stefka Mihaylova. Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century0
Christine Bold. “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits, 1880s1930s0
The Haunting of the Antebellum South: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate as a Gothic Memory Archive0
“This Could Go On Forever”: Rethinking the End in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Apocalyptic Dramas0
The Freedom Mythology of Father Comes Home from the Wars0
Peter P. Reed. Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance0
Lisa Biggs. The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation0
Xiaomei Chen, Tarryn Li-Min Chun, and Siyuan Liu, eds. Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theatres of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era0
“Something Is Happening”: Medical Realism and the Problem of Acting in Harold Pinter’sA Kind of Alaska0
Outstanding Article Award for 20220
Hana Worthen, Humanism, Drama, and Performance: Unwriting Theatre0
Shattering Normalcy: Disability and Queerness in Tennessee Williams’s One Arm0
“A Terrible Art of Sharp-Shooting at the Audience”: Teaching the Shock of Modernist Drama via the Play of Ideas0
Alice Brown Takes on Social Insecurity: Joint Owners in Spain0
Jonas Tinius. State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration0
Brent Salter. Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–19510
Max Shulman. The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890–19400
Corey Wakeling. Beckett’s Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure0
Brandon Woolf, Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin0
Marcia Noe. Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre0
Michael D’alessandro. Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835750
Shepard’s Political Economy: Curse of the Starving Class in Neoliberal Capitalism0
Arnold Aronson. Fifty Key Theatre Designers0
Black Queer Cosmologies, Sonic Geographies, and Embodied Entanglement in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays0
Martin Kagel and David Z. Saltz, eds. Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori0
Beth Wynstra. Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., and Shane Vogel, eds. Race and Performance after Repetition.0
Onnagata, Grotesque Beauty, and Aging: Reading Tennessee Williams’s Kabuki-Inspired Plays0
Hélène Lecossois. Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J.M. Synge0
Miguel Escobar Varela, Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research0
An Invitation from the Displaced: Refuge Restaged in The Jungle and As Far as My Fingertips Take Me0
Learning to Love Medea: The Hungry Woman, Mojada, and the Pedagogy of Adaptation0
Theresa J. May. Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater.0
Ibsen Postcards / Postcard Ibsens: Domesticating Modernism0
David Clare, Fiona Mcdonagh, and Justine Nakase, eds. The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716–20160
Outstanding Article Award for 20210
Bertolt Brecht’s “Niobes”: Example, Interruption, and Model0
Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, and Liyang Xia. Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces0
Xiaomei Chen. Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture0
Shannon Walsh, Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout0
Catherine Hindson. Theatre in the Chocolate Factory: Performance at Cadbury’s Bournville, 1900–19350
Pandemic Remembered: Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918) Remedied0
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Teaching Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced: Navigating Islamophobia and Orientalism in the Drama Classroom0
Michelle Castañeda. Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law0
Unwriting the Future: Russell Hoban’s Stage Adaptation of Riddley Walker0
J. Paul Halferty and Cathy Leeney, eds. Analysing Gender in Performance0
Exhibiting the Nation: Identity and (Post)colonial Aesthetics in Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad0
Michael Malek Najjar, Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists0
New Approaches to Harold Pinter0
Macelle Mahala. Black Theater, City Life: African American Arts Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies0
May Summer Farnsworth. Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico0
Patricia Herrera. Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From the Café to Hip Hop Theater0
Drew Lichtenberg. The Piscatorbühne Century: Politics and Aesthetics in the Modern Theater after 19270
Foregrounding (Lost) Rituals in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Transatlantic Gesture0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry0
Gustavo Rodríguez Martín, ed. Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World0
Katarzyna Fazan, Michal Kobialka, and Bryce Lease, eds. A History of Polish Theatre0
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science0
Stephen Abbott. The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics0
Emotionally Uninhabitable? Dramatizing Environmental Destruction and Contamination0
Alex Ferrone, Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London0
Listening to Los Angeles in the Theatre of Anna Deavere Smith and Gabriel Kahane0
Mala Renganathan and Arnab Bhattacharya, eds. Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre0
Rohan McWilliam. London’s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800–1914.0
Examining Martin Crimp’s Political Aesthetic in The Country and The City0
“Africa Claiming Her Own”: Unveiling Natural Hair and African Diasporic Identity in Lorraine Hansberry’s Unabridged A Raisin in the Sun0
Ryan Claycomb. In the Lurch: Verbatim Theatre and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation0
Kate Dossett. Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal0
Nic Leonhardt. Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange (1890–1925).0
The Kindness of Strangers: Eugenics and Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire0
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