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 […]

“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.” […]

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 […]

“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 […]

Books Received

If you would like to write a review for JADT, please contact our current book review editor Maya Roth at mer46@georgetown.edu. If you know of a book that would be suitable for review in JADT, please arrange for a copy to be mailed to the Editors, JADT/Martin E. Segal Theatre […]

Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife

Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife. Kareem Khubchandani. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Kareem Khubchandani’s Ishtyle is an innovative and refreshing critical survey of gay Indian nightlife cultures in diaspora that anchors its theoretical trajectory around the monograph’s title. The book’s originality is announced from its very start, when readers […]

Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from Angels in America to Hamilton

Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from Angels in America to Hamilton. Chris Jones. London: Methuen Drama, 2019. Pp. 215. Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from Angels in America to Hamilton takes a broadly sociological look at notable Broadway shows of the last 30 years, constructing a rough lineage from […]

The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida

The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida, by Karen Jaime. New York City, NY:  New York University Press, 2021; 275pp. $28.00 paper. Karen Jaime’s love letter to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a primarily spoken word venue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, moves the reader toward an aesthetic practice […]

Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America

Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America. Rebekah J. Kowal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020; Pp. 295. Rebekah J. Kowal’s Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America emerged out of photos of “ethnic dance” that she stumbled upon in the New York Public Library for the […]

Revisiting Musicals, Dance, Identity and History: Performance Cultures of the Body

Maya Roth, Editor   Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America By Rebekah J. Kowal Reviewed by Dahye Lee Ishstyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife By Kareem Khubchandani Reviewed by Rahul K Gairola Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from Angels in America to Hamilton By Chris Jones Reviewed […]