Guest Editorial Board

Guest Editorial Board Mohamadreza Babaee Lindsey R. Barr Jessica Bashline Katherine M. Carter Anna Morton Megan Monaghan Rivas Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon Short Bios Mohamadreza Babaee, M.F.A., Ph.D., is an Iranian performance and digital arts studies scholar and transdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on US immigration law, diaspora politics, […]

“Emergent Strategy”: Abolitionist Pedagogy in Pandemic Time

by Marissa Nicosia & Jack Isaac Pryor The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Small is good, small is all. (The large is a reflection of the small.) Change is constant. (Be like water.) There […]

Patrick Gabridge at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Photograph by Corinne Elicone. 2018

Starting with the Space: An Interview with Patrick Gabridge

by Talya Kingston The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center   Plays In Place is a Massachusetts-based company that collaborates with museums, historical sites and cultural institutions to commission plays that are fully produced in […]

Reviving Feminist Archives: An Interview with Leigh Fondakowski

by Caitlin A.Kane The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Leigh Fondakowski (they/she) has dedicated nearly 25 years to creating theatre from narrative interviews and archival research. In works including The Laramie Project, The People’s Temple, […]

Chevruta Partnership and the Playwright/Dramaturg Relationship

by Becca Levy and Jared Rubin Sprowls The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center How can a traditional practice for Jewish text study inform the dramaturgical analysis of a new work development process? This article […]

Meet Me Where I Am: New Play Dispatches from the DC Area

by Jared Strange The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center For most Americans, the mere mention of “the DMV” summons nightmares of bureaucratic deadlock. For residents of the DC-Maryland-Virginia metropolitan area such as myself, it […]

México (Expropriated): Reappropriation and Rechoreography of Ballet Folklórico

by Jessica L. Peña Torres The Journal of American Drama and TheatreVolume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023)ISNN 2376-4236©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Zapateado, burlesque dancing, and a mix of mariachi, son jarocho, and electronic music combine to create the world for MÉXICO (EXPROPRIATED), a bilingual dance-theater piece that surveys […]

Community members waiting for the arrival of the Front Porch Plays. The audience was asked to social-distance and limit their group to 10 people.

The Front Porch Plays: Socially-Distanced, Covid-Safe, Micro-Theatre

by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center On a mild day in June 2020, four actors, each in their own car, paraded through the small, rural college town of Sewanee, Tennessee. […]

The Heart/Roots Project and a Pandemic Pivot

by Beth Wynstra and Mary Pinard The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center The final moment of Heart/Roots: Wabaunsee County, a new community-based play, is a poem, called “Sonnet in the Voice of the Ruin.” […]

(Re)Generation: Creating Situational Urban Theatre During COVID and Beyond

by MK Lawson and Jessica Bashline The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Re)Generation was developed with a faculty fellowship from University of Miami Jessica Bashline and MK Lawson, the creators of (Re)Generation interview one another […]

Making Up for Lost Time: New Play Development in Academia Post COVID 19

by Jackie Rosenfeld and Cade M.Sikora The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center There is a tremendous amount of grief in the post-COVID world of post-secondary educational theatre regarding missed opportunities and lost time. When […]

Revolutions in Performance and Theatre / History Now

Maya Roth, Editor Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances By Jill Stevenson Reviewed by Rob Silverman Ascher Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Theatre in the Digital Age By Duška Radosavljević Reviewed by M. Landon Borderlands Children’s Theatre: Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre By Cecilia Josephine Aragόn Reviewed by Jeanne […]

Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances

by Rob Silverman Ascher The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances. Jill Stevenson. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2022; Pp. 243. The overlap of performance and […]

Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Theatre in the Digital Age

by M. Landon The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2023) ISNN 2376-4236 ©2023 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Theatre in the Digital Age. Duška Radosavljević. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022; Pp. 224. A decade after her TaPRA Research Award-winning monograph Theatre-Making: […]