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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
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. 2
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
Movement Theatre1
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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
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
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
Erratum0
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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
Stage Echoes: Tracing the Pantomime Harlequinade through Comic Ballet, Trap Work, and Silent Film0
TSY volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
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
Greasers, Bandidos, and Squatters under Duress: Containing Latinidad in Mid-Nineteenth-Century California0
Recruiting Places: Pearl Primus's Plans for Global Activism through Community-Engaged Dance Theatre0
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
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
Call for Papers [deadline extended]0
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
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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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
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
The Spirit in the Little Theatre (1917)0
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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
Send in the Clowness: The Problematic Origins of Female Circus Clowns0
Disappearing Mermaids: Staging White Women's Mobility through Aquatic Performance at the New York Hippodrome0
Verfremdungseffekt or Entfremdungseffekt ? A Study of Brecht’s Manuscripts on Chinese Theatre0
The Avant-Garde Practices of Gwendolen Bishop – ERRATUM0
Shooting from Windows: Performing Tactical Lawfulness during Jim Crow0
Performing Midsommar: Sweden Nationalism, Folkloric Pageantry, and the Political Power of Symbolic Divergence0
An Endless Capacity for Dissembling: Representing Teenage Girls on the American Stage from The Children's Hour through If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka0
Memories of Wars and Revolutions in Wang Chong’s Theatre0
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
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
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
“Put money in thy purse. Follow thou the wars”: Othello, the Mexican–American War, and Manifest Destiny0
The Work0
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
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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
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
Anticipation0
Reclamation0
William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, or the “Real” Sherlock Holmes: Seeking Reality in Materiality0
The British Council and the Marat/Sade Controversy0
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
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
Ear Training for History: Listening to Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's Double-Voiced Aesthetics0
TSY volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Editorial: Staging Revolutions0
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
Parables, Fairy Tales, and the Stasi: The Liedertheater of Gerhard Gundermann’s Brigade Feuerstein0
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
The Race for Rehabilitation: Sign-Mime, the National Theatre of the Deaf, and Cold War Internationalism0
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
Rescuing Richard Cœur de Lion: Rivalry, Rehearsal, and Performance at Sheridan's Drury Lane0
Reimagining, Reclaiming, and Retelling0
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
Reinterpreting, Reimagining, and Reckoning0
Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century By Marlis Schweitzer. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 20200
Alongside Slavery's Asides: Reverberations of Edward Young'sThe Revenge0
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
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
Njoki McElroy’s Radical Oral Interpretation of Literature0
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
Counterpublic Goods in Interesting Times: Transitional Subjectivities Onstage at Highways Performance Space, 1989–19930
Changing the Musical’s Major: Beautiful and Fun Home Redefine Feminist Historiography0
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
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
TSY volume 66 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Staging the Entangled Human–Natural–Technological Worlds in Jungle Book Reimagined0
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
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
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
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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
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
The Challenge of World Theatre History By Steve Tillis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; pp. xi + 320, 5 illustrations. $119.99 cloth, $84.99 paper, $89 e-book.0
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
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
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
Crossing Collaborative Borders: The Making and Becoming of ÓRALE! by David Herrera Performance Company and El Vez, the Mexican Elvis0
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TSY volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
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
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
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
Special Issue of Theatre Survey0
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
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
Staging Hurston's Heaven: Ethnographic Performance from the Pulpit to the Pews0
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
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice: Dance and Live Art in Contemporary South Africa and Beyond By Catherine M. Cole. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2020, pp. xviii + 286, 18 illustrati0
The People and Places of Experimental Theatre Scholarship: A Computational Overview0
Gender and Nation as Symbolic Challenge: The British Reception of Swedish Playwright Anne Charlotte Leffler’s True Women0
Love Me: From Politics to Ethics at the Berliner Ensemble0
The Emergence of the Integrated Musical: Otto Harbach, Oratorical Theory, and the Cinema0
From the Vic to the Hollywood Bowl0
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Queer Performance and Radical Possibilities: Bill Butler and the Post-Stonewall Roller Disco0
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
Pioneering Turkish Muslim Actresses: Afife Jale and Bedia Muvahhit's Trajectories in the Turkish Stage0
The Queen of the Vic: Eliza Vincent's Actress-Management of the Victoria Theatre, London, 1841–18560
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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
Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation By April Sizemore-Barber. Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of M0
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
Playing the Police with the Agitprop Troupes of Weimar Germany0
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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
Yeats's Photographs and the World Theatre of Images0
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
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
Richard Pryor’s Sonic Acts: Epistemological Rupture at the Hollywood Bowl, 18 September 19770
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
Performance Archives0
The Constructive Deconstruction of Mary Overlie's Six Viewpoints0
Jacques Copeau's “The Spirit in the Little Theatre”: Contexts and Texts0
Performing Celebrity and Anna Renzi's Cross-Dressed Performance as Ergindo0
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
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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TSY volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
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
Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution By Yann Robert. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019; pp. viii + 331, 1 illustration. $79.95 cloth, $75.95 e-book0
Theorizing Performance Archives through the Critic's Labor0
Blindness, Excrement, and Abjection in the Theatre: ASTR Presidential Address, 30 October 20210
Special Issue ofTheatre Survey0
LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press0
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
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
TSY volume 65 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
TSY volume 63 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
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
Assembling the Past0
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
(Re)Imagining the Polis: Audience Participation as Postdramatic Discourse0
“Artistic” Femininity: Republican Nandan and the Discourse of Xiqu “Aestheticism”0
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
Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey: Theatre under Threat By Burcu Yasemin Şeyben. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021; pp. xix + 175. $95 cloth, $45 e-book.0
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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
At-Home Humbugs: Freaks and Fakes in the Nineteenth-Century Parlor Museum0
Claiming Ancient Egypt: Operetta ‘Aida and the Making of Modern Egyptians0
Scenes from Bourgeois Life By Nicholas Ridout. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020; pp. xii + 211. $70 cloth, $54.95 e-book.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
The Avant-Garde Practices of Gwendolen Bishop0
Nobodies and Somebodies: Embodying Precarity on the Early Modern English Stage0
Antitheatrical Prejudice: From Parish Priests to Diocesan Rituals in Early Modern France0
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
Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage By Eero Laine. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies. New York: Routledge, 2020; pp. viii + 148. $160 cloth, $48.95 paper, $48.95 e-book0
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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
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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
Staging Stalingrad: Building a Wartime Alliance, Pro-Soviet Propaganda, and the Trope of the Two Americas, 1942–19470
Theatre in Market Economies By Michael McKinnie. Theatre and Performance Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. x + 203, 9 illustrations. $99.99 / $80 e-book.0
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