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 mail a copy to the Editors, JADT/Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016-4309.
Bigsby, Christopher. Twenty-First Century American Playwrights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Brejzek, Thea and Lawrence Wallen. The Model as Performance: Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture (Performance and Design). New York and London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.
Chinn, Sarah. Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Civil, Gabrielle. Swallow the Fish. Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017.
* Cook, Amy. Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Dudeck, Theresa Robbins and Caitlin McClure, eds. Applied Improvisations: Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre. New York and London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018.
Eisen, Kurt, and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. The Theatre of Eugene O’Neill: American Modernism on the World Stage. New York and London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.
Gallagher-Ross, Jacob. Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Gluzman, Yelena, Sophia Cleary, and Katie Gaydosed, eds. Emergency Index: an annual document of performance practice: Vol. 6. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017.
* Hamera, Judith Patrick. Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Hays, David. Setting The Stage: What We Do, How We Do It Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2017.
Homan, Sidney and Brian Rhinehart. Comedy Acting for Theatre: The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies. New York and London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018.
* Johnson, Kirsty. Disability Theatre and Modern Drama: Recasting Modernism. New York and London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016.
Knapp, Raymond. Making Light. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.
* Luckett , Sharrell with Tia Shaffer, eds. Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Palmer, David, ed. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama. New York and London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018.
Romano, Renee C., and Claire Bond Potter, eds. Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018.
* Skelton, Shannon Blake. The Late Works of Sam Shepard New York and London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.
* Weiss, Katherine, ed. A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
* Ybarra , Patricia. Latinx Theater in the Time of Neoliberalism. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
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