OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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.	3
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; $	3
Movement Theatre	2
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 c	2
TSY volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
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 M	1
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-bo	1
Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief By Lindsay Brandon Hunter. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. xxiv + 162, 1 illustration. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.	1
“Artistic” Femininity: Republican Nandan and the Discourse of Xiqu “Aestheticism”	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 Moder	0
The Queen of the Vic: Eliza Vincent's Actress-Management of the Victoria Theatre, London, 1841–1856	0
TSY volume 63 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
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. $1	0
“Put money in thy purse. Follow thou the wars”: Othello, the Mexican–American War, and Manifest Destiny	0
Reclamation	0
We Will Remember That We Came Together in Protest and Mutual Aid	0
Emergence and Restraint: Indigenous Performances during the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Alongside Slavery's Asides: Reverberations of Edward Young'sThe Revenge	0
Special Issue of Theatre Survey	0
Erratum	0
Rescuing Richard Cœur de Lion: Rivalry, Rehearsal, and Performance at Sheridan's Drury Lane	0
Staging Stalingrad: Building a Wartime Alliance, Pro-Soviet Propaganda, and the Trope of the Two Americas, 1942–1947	0
Recruiting Places: Pearl Primus's Plans for Global Activism through Community-Engaged Dance Theatre	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
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 illust	0

TSY volume 66 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
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, 2020	0
Performance Archives	0
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, $12	0
TSY volume 62 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
TSY volume 65 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	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 vid	0
Theorizing Performance Archives through the Critic's Labor	0
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 cloth	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-boo	0
TSY volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
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
Notes From the Field (From the Desk): To Hold	0
Greasers, Bandidos, and Squatters under Duress: Containing Latinidad in Mid-Nineteenth-Century California	0
TSY volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	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, 202	0
Performing Celebrity and Anna Renzi's Cross-Dressed Performance as Ergindo	0
Richard Pryor’s Sonic Acts: Epistemological Rupture at the Hollywood Bowl, 18 September 1977	0
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
Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790–1850 By Sara E. Lampert. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020; pp. xi + 276, 19 illustrations. $110 cloth, $28 paper, $19.95 e-b	0
The Work	0
Antitheatrical Prejudice: From Parish Priests to Diocesan Rituals in Early Modern France	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
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 clot	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
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
(Re)Imagining the Polis: Audience Participation as Postdramatic Discourse	0
Wang Chong and the Theatre of Immediacy: Technology, Performance, and Intimacy in Crisis	0
The Emergence of the Integrated Musical: Otto Harbach, Oratorical Theory, and the Cinema	0
TSY volume 66 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
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
Love Me: From Politics to Ethics at the Berliner Ensemble	0
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, 1	0
Editorial: Staging Revolutions	0
TSY volume 63 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Ear Training for History: Listening to Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's Double-Voiced Aesthetics	0
Yeats's Photographs and the World Theatre of Images	0
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
TSY volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Memories of Wars and Revolutions in Wang Chong’s Theatre	0
Shooting from Windows: Performing Tactical Lawfulness during Jim Crow	0
TSY volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
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
Changes	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
Queer Performance and Radical Possibilities: Bill Butler and the Post-Stonewall Roller Disco	0
From the Vic to the Hollywood Bowl	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
Never Normal	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

TSY volume 63 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
TSY volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Oily Cart's Space to Be: Exploring the Carer's Role in Sensory Theatre for Neurodiverse Audiences during COVID-19	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
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-b	0
Counterpublic Goods in Interesting Times: Transitional Subjectivities Onstage at Highways Performance Space, 1989–1993	0
The Constructive Deconstruction of Mary Overlie's Six Viewpoints	0
At-Home Humbugs: Freaks and Fakes in the Nineteenth-Century Parlor Museum	0
Let's Build Theatre Communities . . . or Not: Virtual Teaching and Scholarship in an Exclusionary World	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, $35	0
“Dancing Alone Together”	0
Disappearing Mermaids: Staging White Women's Mobility through Aquatic Performance at the New York Hippodrome	0
Going “Live” Again: Reflections on Zoom, Copresence, & Liveness in a (Post)Pandemic World	0
Assembling the Past	0
The Avant-Garde Practices of Gwendolen Bishop – ERRATUM	0
Stage Echoes: Tracing the Pantomime Harlequinade through Comic Ballet, Trap Work, and Silent Film	0
Grace Is a Practice	0
Winstanley's “Righteous Actors”: Performance, Affect, and Extraordinary Politics in the Seventeenth Century	0
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
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
Performing Midsommar: Sweden Nationalism, Folkloric Pageantry, and the Political Power of Symbolic Divergence	0
Special Issue ofTheatre Survey	0
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. xxx	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
Gender and Nation as Symbolic Challenge: The British Reception of Swedish Playwright Anne Charlotte Leffler’s True Women	0
Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century By Mary McAvoy. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019; pp. x + 260, 6 illustrations. $90 pape	0
The British Council and the Marat/Sade Controversy	0
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 e	0
Staging Hurston's Heaven: Ethnographic Performance from the Pulpit to the Pews	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 illustr	0
Nobodies and Somebodies: Embodying Precarity on the Early Modern English Stage	0
The Spirit in the Little Theatre (1917)	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
Taking the Rural International	0
Caste as Performance: Ayyankali and the Caste Scripts of Colonial Kerala	0
Pioneering Turkish Muslim Actresses: Afife Jale and Bedia Muvahhit's Trajectories in the Turkish Stage	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
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 illustrati	0
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 Internationalism	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
TSY volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance By Sunny Stalter-Pace. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020; pp. xii + 266, 19 illustrations. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 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-book	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
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
Performance and Its Opposition	0
William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, or the “Real” Sherlock Holmes: Seeking Reality in Materiality	0
TSY volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	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
Theatre/Performance Historiography for the 2020s: A Review Essay - The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx. London and New York: Ro	0
Playing the Police with the Agitprop Troupes of Weimar Germany	0
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
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. $1	0
Jacques Copeau's “The Spirit in the Little Theatre”: Contexts and Texts	0
The Avant-Garde Practices of Gwendolen Bishop	0
TSY volume 63 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
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 / Medieva	0
TSY volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	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
TSY volume 65 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
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 cl	0
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
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-boo	0
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 Muhfucka	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 pape	0
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
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-book	0
The People and Places of Experimental Theatre Scholarship: A Computational Overview	0
Send in the Clowness: The Problematic Origins of Female Circus Clowns	0
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
Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570–1630 By Natalie Crohn Schmitt. London and New York: Routledge, 2020; pp. viii + 112, 11 illustrations. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 e-book.	0
Theatre and Knowledge By David Kornhaber. London: Red Globe Press, 2020; pp. xii + 82. $9.99 paper, $7.99 e-book.	0
Blindness, Excrement, and Abjection in the Theatre: ASTR Presidential Address, 30 October 2021	0
TSY volume 63 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
TSY volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
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. $115	0
Crossing Collaborative Borders: The Making and Becoming of ÓRALE! by David Herrera Performance Company and El Vez, the Mexican Elvis	0
Claiming Ancient Egypt: Operetta ‘Aida and the Making of Modern Egyptians	0

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
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. $95	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
Anticipation	0
TSY volume 63 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	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
TSY volume 62 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0