The Journal of American Drama and Theatre asked seven leading scholars to comment on how they saw the state of our field today. This is what they wrote.
New Directions in Dramatic and Theatrical Theory: The Emerging Discipline of Performance Philosophy
Michael Y. Bennett
Changes, Constants, Constraints: African American Theatre History Scholarship
Kevin Byrne
Reflections: Fifty Years of Chicano/Latino Theatre
Jorge Huerta
Strangers Onstage: Asia, America, Theatre, and Performance
Esther Kim Lee
Transgressive Engagements: The Here and Now of Queer Theatre Scholarship
Jordan Schildcrout
Thinking about Temporality and Theatre
Maurya Wickstrom
Musical Theatre Studies
Stacy Wolf