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2001
Puppetry Yearbook, Vol. 5.
Edited by James Fisher. Lampeter, Wales, and Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

2002
"We Will Be Citizens." Gay Drama on the Mainstream American Stage. New York: Peter Lang.

Before the Theory: The Early Productions of Edward Gordon Craig, 1900-1906. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Stephen Sondheim: A Research and Production Sourcebook. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press.

THE THEATER OF TONY KUSHNER: LIVING PAST HOPE
by James Fisher
ISBN # 0815331509
Routledge
A rarity among American playwrights, Tony Kushner is a socio-political dramatist. Like Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, and especially Bertolt Brecht, Kushner believes that "all theater is political." His plays explore the moral, social, religious, and political questions that shape the future of the United States in the world community. The first complete study of Kushner's work, Fisher's work covers all full-length, one-act, and adapted works by this Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist.

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EDDIE CANTOR: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY
by James Fisher
ISBN # 0313295565
Greenwood Publishing Group
Born Isidore Iskowitz in 1892, Eddie Cantor became one of the greatest entertainers of Depression-era America. The star of such films as Roman Scandals (1933) and Kid Millions (1934), he symbolized the ordinary person who falls into extraordinary circumstances. Off-screen or on, Cantor exuded a spirit of charity and hopefulness. His life was marked by numerous humanitarian achievements and a strong commitment to political and social causes. On October 29, 1995, as part of a nationwide celebration of the 75th anniversary of radio, he was posthumously inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communication. Despite his significant achievements and enormous popularity with his public, Eddie Cantor is today among the most overlooked performers of the golden age of American entertainment. This reference book provides detailed information on his extensive stage, film, radio, television, and musical work and includes an extensive bibliography.

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AL JOLSON: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY
by James Fisher
ISBN # 0313286205
Greenwood Publishing Group
From the early days of his stage career in the decades before World War I through his unparalleled comeback after World War II, Al Jolson was billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer." This book provides an insightful sketch of Al Jolson's life (c.1886-1950) and a comprehensive record of his extensive career. The volume begins with a biography which discusses the factors that shaped Jolson's development as a performer. A chronology of the chief events in his life follows. Chapters are then devoted to his stage, film, recording, and broadcast career. Each of these chapters contains annotated entries for Jolson's performances. A bibliography follows, with entries for books, periodicals, and newspaper articles. Appendices list stage shows based on Jolson's life, along with newsreels, cartoons, awards, and endorsements related to his career. Name and title indexes conclude the work and add to its reference value

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SPENCER TRACY: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY
by James Fisher
ISBN # 0313287279
Greenwood Publishing Group Often referred to as the "actor's actor," Spencer Tracy began his career on the stage. He went on to star in a number of commercially and critically successful films, won back-to-back Academy Awards in 1937 and 1938, and entered into a personal and professional relationship with Katharine Hepburn that was to last through his final film. This book provides detailed information on the actor's performances in film, radio, television, and drama, and presents an extensive bibliography, plus a list of Tracy's appearances in newsreels and cartoons. Includes a biographical essay on his life and career, featuring commentary from co-workers and critics. Includes b&w photos. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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THE THEATRE OF YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW: COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE ON THE MODERN STAGE
by James Fisher
ISBN # 0773495290
Edwin Mellen Press

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PUPPETRY YEARBOOK
edited by James Fisher
Edwin Mellen Press

VOLUME 1 (Dec. 1996) ISBN # 0773493352
The Voice of the People (George Speaight); Puppets and the Commedia dell'Arte in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries (Ryan Howard); Chapbooks and English Puppet Plays (John Phillips); Bunraku: The Traditional Puppet Theater of Japan (Kinko Ito); The Development and Characterization: Puppet Figures of Kasperltheater (Martha Freeman); The Argentine Creole Puppet Theatre (Donald S. Castro); A Chronology of European Theater Events involving Masks, Puppets, and Other Performing Ofjects, 1887-1939 (John Bell); An Interview with Lou Bunin: "Being a Puppet" (Kathryn Grow-McCromick); Po(p)litieke Satire Vlaamse Realiteit? (Freek Neirynck); Theater of the 20th Century as Theater of the Performing Object (John Bell); Domestic Resurrection: The Bread and Puppet Theater (James Fisher); book reviews.

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VOLUME 2 (Dec. 1996) ISBN # 0773487999
The Perception of "Puppetness" in Legacy of Modernism (Robert S. Petersen); Ancient Greek Theater, Noh, Bunraku, and Craig (Nancy L. Staub); "Gentlemen, The Marionette!": Edward Gordon Craig, Floyd Dell, and the Über-marionette (James Fisher); Histories of Gombeyatta: South Indian String Puppets (Michael Schuster); Visual Theater in South India: Gombeyatta-Puppet Traditions (Michael Schuster); Serious Humor: The Ritual Clowns of Indian and Indonesian Puppetry (Nathan Kumar Scott); A Brief Panorama on Cuban Puppetry (Freddy Artiles); The Glove Puppet Theater of Punch and Judy (Martha Feehan); The Origin and Progress of W. J. Bullock's Royal Marionettes (John Phillips); Music in Movement: The Collaboration of Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal (Nancy L. Staub); Marionettes et Acteurs, des collègues faits pour s'entendre (Freek Nerynck); Satori in a Garbage Can (Bill Stout); book reviews.

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VOLUME 3 (May 1997) ISBN # 0773486461
Art, Technology and Communication in Animated Theater (Ana Maria Amaral); Tradition and Theater - Rites and Myths (Ana Maria Amaral); Besides Bunraku - The Incredible Variety of Japanese Puppetry (Nancy L. Staub); Traditional Puppets in Belgium (Freek Neirynck, translated by Stefan Bauwens); Gilgamesh and The Golem - Two Experiments with Puppetry, Folklore and Myth (Bradford Clark); The Puppetness of Commedia dell'arte - A Comic Example called The Bogus Bride (James Fisher); Puppetry As the Tool of Sociality - The Emergence of an Art Form (G. A. Lane); A Survey of Victorian Marionettists (John Phillips); Interview with Josef Kroftka of Drak Theater, June 1995 (Nancy Bishop); Figures in Motion - A Treatise (Willem F. Wanrooy); Video Review - Brother Bread, Sister Puppet (James Fisher); Book Review - Masters, Disciples, and the Art of the Bunraku Puppeteer's Performance (Nancy L. Staub).

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VOLUME 4 (May 2000) ISBN # 0773476903
1. Among Deities, Priests and Shamans: Puppets within ritual (Henryk Jurkowski) 2. Puppets and the Work of Stanislaw Wypsianski (Henryk Jurkowski) 3. Pirandello and Fo: Fool/Puppet Masters (James Fisher) 4. Asian Theatrical Traditions Transformed in Contemporary Western Puppet Theatre (Jane McMahan) 5. The Big Man and the Puppeteer: A Transcultural Morality Tale from West Java, Indonesia (Matthew Isaac Cohen) 6. Observations upon the Work of A Contemporary Dalang: Bali, Indonesia 1999 (Bradford Clark) 7. The Masks and Puppets of Julie Taymor: Spiritual Fictions (Nancy L. Staub) 8. Puppet Theatre in the Dutch Speaking Part of Belgium (Freek Neirynck) 9. Applied Relativity .c2. Relativity; and the Puppet Play: An Abstract Guide to Animation, Manipulation and Communication in the Theater of the Puppet (G. A. Lane) 10. Ancient Old Wives’ Tale or the Story of Two Roses (G. A. Lane)

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Academeplay, a "ten-minute" play in one-act.

THE BOGUS BRIDE, an original farce in two-acts based on commedia dell'arte traditions. ISBN 1-55215-208-1.
Published by Performance Publishing Co., Elgin, IL in Sept. 1983. A slightly revised version was published in 1996 and is available through International Readers' Theatre, Winnipeg, Canada.
This play has been produced by the following companies: Primary Stages (Off-Off Broadway) (W. 45th Street, New York), First Run Productions; Wabash College; Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Samford University, others.



"The Little Theatre Movement," for Companion to American Drama. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig, 2003.

"Christopher Isherwood's Plays/Screenplays," for Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia. Edited by David Garrett Izzo, 2002.

"Succumbing to Luxury: Politics, Society, and Culture in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul," Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 2002.

Short essays on Oscar Wilde, Bertolt Brecht, The Group Theatre (British), and Christopher Isherwood's A Meeting by the River for W. H. Auden Encyclopedia. Edited by David Garrett Izzo, 2002.

"In My Leftover Heart: Confessional Autobiography in Tennessee Williams's Something Cloudy, Something Clear," Undiscovered Country: The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

Essays on Anton Chekhov, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer, You Touched Me!, and Something Cloudy Something Clear for the Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia edited by Philip C. Kolin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

"Auden, Isherwood, and A Meeting By the River," W. H. Auden: A Legacy. Edited by David Garrett Izzo. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001.

"The Finger in the Eye: Politics and Literature in the Theatre of Dario Fo," Theatre Symposium, Volume 9. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2001, pp. 45-57.

"'The Arithmetic and Logic of Life': The Forces of Commerce and Capital in a Revival of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Money," Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Volume XV, No. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 115-132.

"D.W. Griffith," Advocates and Activists Who Shaped the Twentieth Century: with an emphasis on the Period Between the Wars. Edited by David Garrett Izzo. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002.

"Orson Welles," Advocates and Activists Who Shaped the Twentieth Century: with an emphasis on the Period Between the Wars. Edited by David Garrett Izzo. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002.

"Harold Clurman," Advocates and Activists Who Shaped the Twentieth Century: with an emphasis on the Period Between the Wars. Edited by David Garrett Izzo. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002.

"Harvey Fierstein," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley. Detroit, MI: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 2002.

"Larry Kramer," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley. Detroit, MI: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 2001.

"Terrence McNally," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley. Detroit, MI: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 2001.

"George M. Cohan," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley. Detroit, MI: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 2001.

"Blacklisting," Encyclopedia of Advertising. Edited by John McDonough. Chicago, IL: Fitzoy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. ISBN 1-57958-172-2.

"The Advantage of Controversy," Arts Indiana, Volume 23, No. 3, Summer 2001, pp. 36-39.

"The Man Who Owned Broadway: George M. Cohan's Triumph in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!," The Eugene O'Neill Review, Vol. 23, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1999, pp. 98-126.

"Tennessee Williams's The Notebook of Trigorin: Adapting Chekhov's The Sea Gull Into Dramatic Autobiography," Text & Presentation, Vol. 21, April 2000, pp. 81-99.

"Fool's Play," The Web of the Humanities: The Charles D. LaFollette Lectures, 1991-1999. Edited by William C. Placher. Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 2000, pp. 55-76.

"'The Depression Kid': Eddie Cantor's Recorded Legacy," ARSC Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, Fall 2000, pp. 190-223.

"Images of the Fool in Italian Theatre from Pirandello and Fo," New England Theatre Journal, Vol. 11, 2000, pp. 103-135.

"Tony Kushner," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume Two Hundred Twenty-Eight. Twentieth Century American Dramatists. Second Series. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley. Detroit, MI: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 2000, pp. 144-160.

"Pirandello and Fo: Fool/Puppet Masters," The Puppetry Yearbook, Volume IV. Edited by James Fisher. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000, pp. 63-83.

"Inside 'The Wooden O': Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar at the New Globe," Early Modern Literary Studies, 5.3, January 2000, 16.1-19 [electronic publication]. Also published in A Groat's Worth of Wit (Journal of the Open University Shakespeare Society), Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 54-62.

"The Culture Wars in Academia: Tony Kushner's Angels in America on Campus," Thought & Action, Fall 1999, Vol. XV, No. 2, pp. 75-87.

"'An Almost Posthumous Existence': Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone," The Southern Quarterly, Fall 1999,Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1, pp. 45-57.

Biographical essays on Harold Adamson, Tod Browning, David Burns, Alfred Cohn, Harry Cohn, David Douglass, Paul Dresser, Max Dreyfus, Eleonora Duse, Philip G. Epstein, Ruth Etting, Sammy Fain, Fred Fisher, Zona Gale, Norman Bel Geddes, Texas Guinan, Margaret Hamilton, Will H. Hays, Susan Hayward, Anna Held, Libby Holman, Lou Holtz, Joe Howard, J(esse) C. Huffman, Samuel J. Hume, Gordon Jenkins, Gus Kahn, Bronislau Kaper, Patsy Kelly, Ted Lewis, Joshua Logan, May McAvoy, Lewis Milestone, Vincente Minnelli, William Powell, Thomas Dartmouth Rice, The Ritz Brothers, Lillian Russell, Peter Sellers, John W. (Bubbles) Sublett, Fay Templeton, John Wexley, Monty Woolley, Victor Young to be published in American National Biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

"Between Two Worlds: Ansky's The Dybbuk and Kushner's A Dybbuk," Soviet and East European Performance, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 20-32.

"'Troubling the Waters': Visions of Apocalypse in Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth and Kushner's Angels in America," Thornton Wilder: New Essays. Edited by Martin Blank, Dalma Hunyadi Brunauer, David Garrett Izzo. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1999, pp. 391-407.

"On the Front Lines of a Skirmish in the Culture Wars: Angels in America Goes to College," On-Stage Studies, Fall 1998, No. 21, pp. 6-30.

"An Author in Search of Characters: Pirandello and Commedia dell'arte," in Modernism in European Drama. Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett. Essays from Modern Drama. Edited by Frederick J. Marker and Christopher Innes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 151-169. ISBN 0-8020-8206-8. [Originally published in Modern Drama, 35 (1992), pp. 495-512.]

"Camino Real." Tennessee Williams. A Guide to Research and Performance. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. ISBN 0-313-30306-1.

"Nixon's America and Follies: Reappraising a Musical Theatre Classic," Stephen Sondheim. A Casebook. Edited by Joanne Gordon. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997, pp 69-84. ISBN 0-8153-2054-X.

"'The First Woman Stage-Manager': Edy Craig and the Pioneer Players," New England Theatre Journal, Volume 8, 1997, pp. 73-94.

"The Puppetness of Commedia dell'arte: An Example," Puppetry Yearbook, Vol. III, 1997, pp. 89-114.

Entries on forty-six scene designers for Theatrical Designers. An International Directory. Edited by Thomas J. Mikotowicz. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 0-313-26270-5. [Entries on Adolphe Appia, Samuel Beazley, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Jacob Van Campen, Jean Carzou, John Conklin, Edward Gordon Craig, Vladimir Dmitriev, Aleksandra Exter, Abdelkader Farrah, Richard Foreman, Isaac Fuller, Edward William Godwin, Pietro Gottardo Gonzaga, Terence Gray, Leslie Hurry, Angelo Ingegneri, Laurence Irving, Robert Edmond Jones, Tadeusz Kantor, Theodore Komisarjevsky, Edward Kook, Konstantin Korovine, Emanuele Luzzati, Laurent Mahelot, Jean-Baptiste Martin, Motley, Traugott Müller, Caspar Neher, Robert O'Hearn, Andrea Palladio, Rollo Peters, The Quaglio Family, Charles Ricketts, Andreas Roller, Luca Ronconi, Leon de Schildenfeld Schiller, William Telbin, John Vanbrugh, Luchino Visconti, Vitruvius, Georges Wahkevitch, Tony Walton, John Webb, Norman Wilkinson, Piotr Williams]

"Harley Granville Barker" (pp. 157-171) for British Playwrights, 1885-1956. A Research and Production Sourcebook. Edited by William Demastes and Katherine Kelly. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0-313-28758-9.

"Alan Ayckbourn" (pp. 15-27) for British Playwrights, 1956-1995. A Research and Production Sourcebook. Edited by William Demastes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0-313-28759-7.

"William Butler Yeats" (pp. 402-417) for Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. A Research and Production Sourcebook. Edited by Bernice Schrank and William W. Demastes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0-313-28805-4.

"A Cinemactor's Forgotten Theatrical Resume: Spencer Tracy on Stage," New England Theatre Journal, Vol. 6, 1995, pp. 91-112.

"Pre-MGM Spencer Tracy," Films in Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 9/10, November/December 1995, pp. 2-23 (this article was misattributed to a "John C. Tibbetts;" the error was corrected in the January/February 1996 issue of Films in Review).

"'A Perfect and an Upright Man': A Reassessment of God's Favorite," Neil Simon. A Casebook. Edited by Gary Konas. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0-8153-2132-5.

"'The Angels of Fructification': Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner, and Images of Homosexuality on the American Stage," Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 1995-96, Vol. XLIX, No. 1, pp. 13-32.

"Tender Men: Sherwood Anderson and Eugene O'Neill," The Eugene O'Neill Review, Spring/Fall 1993, Vol. 17, No. 1&2, pp. 135-147.

"'Gentlemen, The Marionette!: Edward Gordon Craig, Floyd Dell, and the Über-marionette," Puppetry Yearbook, Vol. II, 1996, pp. 29-54.

"Edy Craig and the Pioneer Players Production of Mrs Warren's Profession," The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 15, 1995, pp. 37-56.

"Rediscovering the Art of Al Jolson: The Films of 'The World's Greatest Entertainer'," Popular Music and Society, Fall 1993, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 19-32.

"Controversy, Cops and Commedia: Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist," Theatre Symposium, Vol. 1, 1993, pp. 127-134.

"The Influence of Commedia dell'arte Scenari on the Modern Stage," Theatre Symposium, Vol. 1, 1993, pp. 36-40.

"Symposium Discussion: What Is a Scenario?," Theatre Symposium, Vol. 1, 1993, pp. 41-55.

"Oedipus at Crawfordsville: Early Productions of Greek Tragedies in Indiana," Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 1, March 1993, pp. 1-17.

"An Author in Search of Characters: Pirandello and Commedia dell'arte," Modern Drama, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, December 1992, pp. 495-512.

"Greek Drama at Wabash," Wabash Notes, Winter 1992, pp. 12-15.

"Broadway Musicals: Recent Preservations of Musicals on the Concert Stage and in the Studio," ARSC Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2, Fall 1992, pp. 157-169.

"Meyerhold, Blok, and Uraneff: The Show Booth (1923)," Soviet and East European Performance, Vol. 10, No. 3, Winter 1990, pp. 36-42.

"Theatrical Revolution: Edward Gordon Craig's Much Ado About Nothing (1903)," Text and Presentation. The University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference. Volume X. Edited by Karelisa Hartigan. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.

"Meyerhold in New York?: Vadim Uraneff's Production of The Show Booth (1923)," Text and Presentation, Vol. XI of the University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference. Edited by Karelisa Hartigan. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991, pp. 13-17. "The Show Booth: Commedia dell'arte on the Twentieth-Century American Stage," New England Theatre Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, Winter 1990, pp. 61-78.

"Commedia Iconography in the Theatrical Art of Edward Gordon Craig," Italian Sources of Popular Comedy: The Commedia dell'arte from the Renaissance to Dario Fo, Vol. VI of The Italian Origins of European Theatre. Edited by Dr. Christopher S. Cairns. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989, pp. 245-275.

"Harlequinade: Commedia dell'arte on the Early Twentieth-Century British Stage," Theatre Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 1989, pp. 30-44.

"All the World's a Stage: The Second International Chicago Theatre Festival," Theater Week, March 14, 1988, Vol. I, No. 31, pp. 25-27.

"'The Colossus' vs. 'Master Teddy': Bernard Shaw-Edward Gordon Craig Feud," The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 9: Shaw Offstage: The Non-Dramatic Writings. Edited by Fred D. Crawford. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1989, pp. 199-221.

"Craig and Duse in the 'Charnel House': Rosmersholm (1906)," Text and Presentation. The University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference Papers. Vol. IX. Edited by Karelisa Hartigan. Lanham, MD: University Press of America,1989, pp. 47-60.

Contributions on entries in Commedia dell'arte: A Guide to the Primary and Secondary Literature by Thomas Heck. NY: Garland Publishing Co., 1988.

"'Going A-Viking': Edward Gordon Craig's Production of Ibsen's The Vikings," Text and Presentation. The University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference Papers. Vol. VIII. Edited by Karelisa Hartigan. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988, pp. 63-75.

"Edward Gordon Craig and the Commedia dell'arte," Indiana Theatre Bulletin, Vol. VII, No. 1, Fall 1986, pp. 22-30.

"Edward Gordon Craig and the Commedia dell'arte in the Twentieth Century," From the Bard to Broadway. The University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference Papers. Vol. VII. Edited by Karelisa Hartigan. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987, pp. 61-78.
"Edward Gordon Craig and Eugene O'Neill," The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, Vol. X, No. 1, Spring 1986, pp. 27-30.

"The Crimson Bird: Opera and the Director," Indiana Theatre Bulletin, Vol. II, No. 2, June 1979, pp. 18.



The Goodman Theatre production of A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, The Eugene O'Neill Review, Vol. 23, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1999, pp. 171-175.

"Lofty Scenes: New Productions of Shakespeare at the New Globe Theatre and the National Theatre of Great Britain," Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 99-113.

National Theatre of Great Britain production of Look Back in Anger by John Osborne, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 135-140.

Wings Theatre production of The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Tony Kushner, Theatre Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 120-121.

Alley Theatre of Houston production of Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne by Tony Kushner, Theatre Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3, October 1998, pp. 370-372.

Royal George Theatre production of Angels in America. Part II: Perestroika by Tony Kushner, Theatre Journal, May 1995, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 291-293.

Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Theatre Journal, Volume 45, No. 4, December 1993, pp. 552-554.

Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Gift of the Gorgon by Peter Shaffer, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Fall 1993, pp. 161-163.

The Bread and Puppet Theatre production of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, Studies in American Drama, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992, pp. 278-281.

West End production of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. IV, No. 1, Fall 1989, p. 185.

Johannesburg Junction Avenue Theatre and the Market Theatre of South Africa production of Sophiatown, Theatre Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, May 1989, pp. 239-240.

Indiana Repertory Theater production of Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill, The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, Vol. XII, No. 3, Winter 1988, pp. 50-51.

English Shakespeare Company production of Shakespeare's "War of the Roses" cycle: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V, Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3, Richard III, The Shakespeare Bulletin, July/August 1988, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 14-15.

Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. II, No. 2, Spring 1988, pp. 194-195.

Royal Shakespeare Company production of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. II, No. 2, Spring 1988, pp. 189-190.

Royal Shakespeare Company production of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, Theatre Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2, May 1988, pp. 270-271.

National Theatre of Great Britain production of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Bulletin, November/December 1987-January/February 1988, Vol. 5, No. 6 & Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 37.

National Theatre of Great Britain production of Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. II, No. 2, Spring 1988, pp. 187-188.

Royal Shakespeare Company production of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Bulletin, September/October 1987, Vol. 5, No. 5, p. 17.

Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Bulletin, September/October 1987, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 17-18.

Goodman Theatre production of She Always Said, Pablo by Frank Galati, Theatre Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 1987, pp. 513-514.

Milwaukee Repertory Theatre production of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, revised and directed by Maria Irene Fornes, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1987, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 111-112.

National Theatre of Great Britain production of Yonadab by Peter Shaffer, Theatre Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, March 1987, pp. 108-109.

Portions of a review of three Royal Shakespeare Company productions cited in "Shakespeare on the Modern Stage" by Louis Marder in The Shakespeare Newsletter, Winter 1987, p. 50.

I Saltimbanchi, a commedia dell'arte performance at the Chicago International Theatre Festival, Mime News, September/October 1986, p. 5.

Purdue University Theatre production of Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill, The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, Vol. X, No. 3, Winter 1986, pp. 38-39.

Indiana Repertory Theatre production of Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill, The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, Vol. X, No. 1, Spring 1986, pp. 33-34.







"Othello. New Critical Essays" edited by Philip C. Kolin, Choice, 2002.

"The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples. A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios." Two volumes (Vol. I English; Vol. II: Italian). Translated and edited by Francesco Cotticelli, Anne Goodrich Heck, and Thomas F. Heck, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 2002.

"The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Volume 1. Beginnings to 1870" edited by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby, "The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. II. 1870-1945" edited by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby; "The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. III. Post-World War II to the 1990s" edited by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 2002.

"Dario Fo and Popular Performance" by Antonio Scuderi; "Dario Fo. Revolutionary Theatre" by Tom Behan; "Dario Fo. Stage, Text, and Tradition" edited by Joseph Farrell and Antonio Scuderi; "Dario Fo & Franca Rame. Artful Laughter" by Ron Jenkins, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 2002.

"Understanding Luigi Pirandello" by Fiona A. Bassanese and "Pirandello & His Muse" by Daniela Bini, Theatre Research International, 2002.

"Rough Magic. Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company" by Steven Adler, Choice, Vol. 39, No. 7, March 2002.

"The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England. A Collaborative Debate" by Anthony B. Dawson and Paul Yachnin, Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2001.

"Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet" edited by Christopher C. Hudgins and Leslie Kane. Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2001.

"British Theatre Between the Wars, 1918-1939" edited by Clive Barker and Maggie B. Gale, Choice, November 2001.

"Contemporary American Playwrights" and "Modern American Drama 1945-2000" by Christopher Bigsby, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XVI, No. 1, Fall 2001, pp. 167-169.

"'It's Only a Movie'. Films and Critics in American Culture," Choice, September 2001.

"The International Theatre Design Archive" (website), Choice, 2001.

"American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History" by Arnold Aronson, Choice, Vol. 38, No. 11, July 2001.

"The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914" by Tracy C. Davis, Choice, Vol. 38, No. 10, June 2001, p. 1805.

"The Changing Room. Sex, Drag and Theatre" by Laurence Senelick. Theatre Survey, Vol. 43, No. 1, May 2002, pp. 112-115.

"Albee. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Stephen J. Bottoms, Choice, Vol. 38, No. 9, May 2001.

"Out on Stage. Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century" by Alan Sinfield and "Straigh With a Twist. Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality" edited by Calvin Thomas, Theatre Survey, Vol. 42, No. 2, November 2001, pp. 240-243.

"Death and Taxes. Hydriotaphia & Other Plays by Tony Kushner," Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Volume XV, No. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 176-183.

"Jacques Copeau. Biography of a Theater" by Maurice Kurtz, Theatre Survey, Vol. 42, No. 1, May 2001, pp. 103-106.

"Understanding Luigi Pirandello" by Fiona A. Bassanese and "Pirandello & His Muse" by Daniela Bini, Theatre Research International, 2001.

"The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization" by Rustom Bharucha, Choice, Vol. 38, No. 7, March 2001.

"Actor as Anti-Character. Dionysus, the Devil, and the Boy Rosalind" by Lesley Wade Soule, Choice, January 2001.

"Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe" by Pauline Kiernan, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XV, No. 1, Fall 2000, pp. 169-172.

"Eugene O'Neill. Beyond Mourning and Tragedy" by Stephen A. Black, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XV, No. 1, Fall 2000, pp. 164-168. "Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire" edited by Philip C. Kolin, Choice, Vol. 38, No. 4, December 2000.

"'A Wind is Rising': The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O'Neill" edited by William Davies King, Theatre Research International, Vol. 25, No. 3, Autumn 2000, pp. 299-300.

"Festive Revolutions. The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe" by Claudia Orenstein, Theatre History Studies, Vol. XX, 2000, pp. 180-183.

"Edges of Loss. From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory" by Mark Pizzato, Theatre Survey, Vol. 41, No. 1, May 2000, pp. 131-133.

"Ibsen's Drama" by Theoharis C. Theoharis, "Understanding Chekhov" by Donald Rayfield, and "Edwardian Shaw" by Leon Hugo, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 154-157.

"Acting Now. Conversations on Craft and Career" by Edward Vilga, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 151-153.

"Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History" edited by V. Janik, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1999, Vol. XIV, No. 1, pp. 188-190.

"Cultural Calisthenics" by Robert Brustein, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1999, Vol. XIV, No. 1, pp. 190-193.

"Peter Shaffer. Theatre and Drama" by Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh. New Theatre Quarterly, November 1999, Vol. XV, No. 4 (NTQ 60), pp. 341-342.

"Peter Shaffer. Theatre and Drama" by Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1999, Vol. XIII, No. 2, pp. 188-190.

"Taking It Like a Man. White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture" by David Savran, to be published in Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1999, Vol. XIII, No. 2, pp. 180-181.

"Banjo Eyes. Eddie Cantor and the Birth of Modern Stardom" by Herbert G. Goldman, ARSC Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 116-118.

"Approaching the Millennium. Essays on Angels in America" edited by Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger, "Essays on Kushner's Angels" edited by Per Brask, "Tony Kushner in Conversation" edited by Robert Vorlicky, Theatre Journal, December 1998, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 550-552.

"Speaking on Stage. Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights. Edited with introduction by Philip C. Kolin and Colby H. Kullman, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1998, Vol XIII, No. 1, pp. 197-201.

"Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition" edited by William W. Demastes and "Mimetic Disillusion. Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism" by Anne Fleche. Theatre Journal, March 1998, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 144-145.

"American Dark Comedy. Beyond Satire by Wes D. Gehring. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1998, Vol. XII, No. 2, pp. 164-166.

"The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler" edited by L. M. Newman. Theatre Research International, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 173-174. [also published in Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1997, Vol. XI, No. 2, pp. 153-155.]

"Contemporary American Dramatists" edited by K. A. Berney. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1997, Vol. XI, No. 2, pp. 151-153.

"Understanding Tennessee Williams" by Alice Griffin and "Understanding Arthur Miller" by Alice Griffin, Theatre Research International, Spring 1997, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 84-85.

"The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre" edited by John Russell Brown, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1996, Vol. XI, No. 1, pp. 139-140.

"The History of the Commedia dell'arte In Modern Hispanic Literature With Special Attention to the Work of Garcia Lorca" by David George and "The Relationship of Oral and Literature Performance Processes in the Commedia dell'arte. Beyond the Improvisation/Memorisation Divide" by Tim Fitzpatrick, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1996, Vol. X, No. 2, pp. 143-144.

"Meyerhold. A Revolution in Theatre" by Edward Braun, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1996, Vol. XI, No. 1, pp. 149-151.

"Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness" by Tony Kushner, New Theatre Quarterly, November 1996, Vol. XII, No. 48, p. 397. [also published in Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1996, Vol. XI, No. 1, pp. 153-154.]

"Puppets and 'Popular' Culture" by Scott Cutler Shershow, Puppetry Yearbook, Vol. II, 1996, pp. 191-193.

"Titus Andronicus. Critical Essays" edited by Philip C. Kolin, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1996, Vol. X, No. 2, pp. 144-146.

"Subversive Laughter" by Ron Jenkins, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 43, August 1995, pp. 295-296. [also published in Broadside, Vol. 23, No. 1, Summer 1995, p. 3.]

"Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. Essays in Cultural Pluralism" edited by Philip C. Kolin and "Tennessee Williams. Everyone Else Is An Audience" by Ronald Hayman, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1995, Vol. IX, No. 2, pp. 181-183.

"Studies in the Commedia dell'arte" edited by David J. George and Christopher J. Gossip and "Commedia dell'arte. An Actor's Handbook" by John Rudlin, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1994, Vol. IX, No. 1, pp. 240-242.

"Henry Irving's Waterloo. Theatrical Engagements with Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig, Late Victorian Culture, Assorted Ghosts, Old Men, War, and History by W. D. King, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1995, Vol. IX, No. 2, pp. 178-181.

"American Theatre. A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869-1914" by Gerald Bordman, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. X, No. 40, November 1994, p. 396.

"Sondheim" by Martin Gottfried and "Sondheim's Broadway Musicals" by Stephen Banfield, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1994, Vol. IX, No. 1, pp. 238-240.

"Looking at Shakespeare. A Visual History of Twentieth Century Performance" by Dennis Kennedy, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1995, Vol. IX, No. 2, pp. 174-175.

"Early Commedia dell'arte, 1550-1621: The Mannerist Context" by Paul Castagno, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Spring 1994, pp. 240-241.

"Scripts and Scenarios. The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy" by Richard Andrews, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Spring 1994, pp. 242-243.

"Giorgio Strehler" by David L. Hirst, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. X, No. 37, February 1994, p. 102.

"Reimagining American Theatre" by Robert Brustein and "Theatre Criticism" by Irving Wardle, Theatre Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3, October 1994, pp. 437-438.

"The Old Vic Theatre. A History" by George Rowell, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. IX, No. 36, November 1993, p. 396.

"Toward an Aesthetics of the Puppet. Puppetry as a Theatrical Art" by Steve Tillis and "In Search of Aesthetics for the Puppet Theatre" by Michael Menschke, Puppetry Yearbook, Vol. I. 1994. Edited by James Fisher. Lampeter, Wales, and Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1994. ISSN 1070-3624.

"Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. Essays in Cultural Pluralism" edited by Philip C. Kolin, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. VII, No. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 81-82.

"Peter Shaffer. A Casebook" by C. J. Gianakaris, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. VII, No. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 79-81.

"The Commedia dell'arte. A Documentary History" by Kenneth and Laura Richards, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. VII, No. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 83-84.

"Ridiculous Theatre. Scourge of Human Folly. The Essays and Opinions of Charles Ludlam" edited by Steven Samuels, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. IX, No. 33, February 1993, pp. 99-100.

"Judy Garland. World's Greatest Entertainer" by John Fricke and "Judy Garland" by David Shipman, ARSC Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 206-207.

"Al Jolson. A Bio-Discography" by Larry F. Kiner and Philip R. Evans, ARSC Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 204-205.

"Copeau. Texts on Theatre" edited by John Rudlin and Norman H. Paul, Theatre Journal, Vol. 44, No. 3, October 1992, p. 425.

"The Tricks of the Trade" by Dario Fo, The Drama Review, Vol. 36, 4 (T136), Winter 1992, pp. 171-174.

"Skakespeare's Speaking Properties" by Frances Teague, Comparative Drama, Vol. 26, No. 3, Fall 1992, pp. 286-287.

"Pirandello's Major Plays" edited and translated by Eric Bentley, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Fall 1993, pp. 198-199.

"The History of World Theater. From the Beginnings to the Baroque" by Margot Berthold. "The History of World Theater. From the English Restoration to the Present" by Felicia Hardison Londré, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VIII, No. 29, February 1992, p. 100.

"A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800" by Philip H. Highfill, Jr., etc., Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1992, Vol. VI, No. 2, pp. 161-162.

"American Playwrights Since 1945" edited by Philip C. Kolin, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. VI, No. 1, Fall 1991, pp. 141-142.

"The History of the English Puppet Theatre" by George Speaight, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VII, No. 28, p. 398.

"Forgotten Leading Ladies of the American Theatre" by Mary M. Turner, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VII, No. 27, August 1991, pp. 295-296.

"The Commedia dell'arte in Paris. 1644-1697" by Virginia Scott, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VII, No. 26, May 1991, pp. 194-195 .

"Art Isn't Easy. The Achievement of Stephen Sondheim" by Joanne Gordon, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VII, No. 26, May 1991, pp. 197-198.

"Art as Spectacle. Images of the Entertainer Since Romanticism" by Naomi Ritter, Theatre Three, Number 8, Spring 1990, pp. 131-132. [also published in New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 24, November 1990, p. 399.]

"American Voices. Five Contemporary Playwrights in Essays and Interviews" by Esther Harriott. Broadside, Vol. 17, Nos. 3-4, Winter 1989/Fall 1990, n.p.

"The Critics Canon. Standards of Theatrical Reviewing in America" by Richard H. Palmer, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1992, Vol. VI, No. 2, pp. 160-161.

"Contemporary Polish Theater and Drama (1956-1984)" by E.J. Czerwinski, Broadside, Vol. 17, No. 1/Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer/Fall 1989, n.p.

"A Companion to the Medieval Theatre" edited by Ronald W. Vince, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1992, Vol. VI, No. 2, pp. 159-160.

"The Age and Stage of G. L. Fox. 1825-1877" by Laurence Senelick, Theatre Journal, Vol. 42, No. 3, October 1990, pp. 408-409.

"Laurence Olivier" by Anthony Holden, Shakespeare Bulletin, September/October 1989, p. 31.

"Black Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s" by Mance Williams, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 22, May 1990, p. 196.

"American Alternative Theatre" by Theodore Shank, "Acrobats of the Soul" by Ron Jenkins, "The Bread and Puppet Theatre" by Stefan Brecht, and "Radical People's Theatre" by Eugéne Van Erven, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. IV, No. 2, Spring 1990, pp. 213-217.

"Black Musical Theatre. From Coontown to Dreamgirls" by Allen Woll., New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 23, August 1990, pp. 302-303.

"Radical People's Theatre" by Eugene Van Erven, Modern Drama, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, March 1991, pp. 151-153.

"Vsevolod Meyerhold" by Robert Leach, Theatre Three, Fall 1989, Number 7, pp. 116-118. [expanded version also published in Comparative Drama, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 1990, pp. 278-279 and Modern Drama, Vol. 34, No. 3, September 1991, pp. 441-443.]

"Russian Drama of the Revolutionary Period" by Robert Russell and "Russian and Soviet Theater 1905-1932" by Konstantin Rudnitsky, Modern Drama, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, September 1990.

"Bernhardt, Terry, Duse: The Actress in Her Time" by John Stokes, Michael Booth, and Susan Bassnett, and "Ellen and Edy" by Joy Melville, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 18, May 1989, pp. 202-203.

"Henry Irving and The Bells" edited by David Mayer, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 18, May 1989, p. 199.

"Sondheim & Co." by Craig Zadan, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 21, February 1990, p. 102.

"Evreinov: The Theatre of Paradox and Transformation" by Spencer Golub and "The Theatrical Instinct. Nikolai Evreinov and the Russian Theatre of the Early Twentieth Century" by Sharon Marie Carnicke, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. V, No. 1, Fall 1990, pp. 153-155.

"The Theatrical Designs of Charles Ricketts" by Eric Binnie, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. V, No. 1, Fall 1990, pp. 159-160.

"Jolson. The Legend Comes to Life" by Herbert G. Goldman, Broadside, Vol. 16, No. 2/Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall/Winter 1988/1989, n.p.

"The Reign of the Theatrical Director: French Theatre, 1887-1924" by Bettina L. Knapp, Modern Drama, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, December 1990, pp. 575-576.

"The Best of Shadowland" compiled and edited by Anna Kate Sterling, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 19, August 1989, p. 304.

"American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940" by Brenda Murphy, Modern Drama, Vol. XXXII, No. 3, September 1989, pp. 453-454.

"Russian and Soviet Theater 1905-1932" by Konstantin Rudnitsky, Comparative Drama, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 1989, pp. 291-292.
"The Temple of Momus. Mitchell's Olympic Theatre" by David L. Rinear, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 19, August 1989, pp. 301-302. "Acrobats of the Soul. Comedy & Virtuosity in Contemporary American Theatre" by Ron Jenkins, Theater, Vol. XXI, Nos. 1 and 2, Winter/Spring 1990, pp. 115-117. [also published in Comparative Drama, Vol. 23, No. 4, Winter 1989-1990.]

"Vladimir's Carrot. Modern Drama and the Modern Imagination" by John Peter, Modern Drama, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, June 1989, pp. 318-319.

"Beyond the Mask. Gordon Craig, Movement, and the Actor" by Irene Eynat-Confino, Theatre Research International, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 1989, pp. 209-211. [also published in New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 19, August 1989, pp. 302-303 and Broadside, Vol. 15, No. 4/Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1988.]

"Adolphe Appia. Theatre Artist" by Richard Beacham, Theatre Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, May 1989, pp. 258-259.

"Noel Coward" by Frances Gray and "Noel Coward" by Robert F. Kiernan, Modern Drama, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, December 1988.

"Adolphe Appia. Theatre Artist" by Richard Beacham, Theatre Design and Technology, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, Summer 1988, pp. 29-31.
"Ellen Terry. Player in Her Time" by Nina Auerbach, Theatre Research International, Vol. 13, No. 3, Autumn 1988, pp. 287-289.

"The Royal Court Theatre, 1965-1972" by Philip Roberts, Modern Drama, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, September 1988, pp. 468-470.

"Granville Barker and His Correspondents" edited and annotated by Eric Salmon, "Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre" by Dennis Kennedy, "Harley Granville Barker. A Preface to Modern Shakespeare" by Christine Dymkowski, and "Plays by Harley Granville Barker" edited by Dennis Kennedy, Modern Drama, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, September 1988, pp. 465-468. [Expanded version also published in Theatre Research International, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1988, pp. 167-169 and Broadside, Vol. 14, Nos. 2,3, Fall/Winter 1987, p. 6.]

"Durov's Pig" by Joel Schechter and "The Triumph of Pierrot" by Martin Green and John Swan, Modern Drama, June 1988, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, pp. 310-312. [also published in Broadside, Vol. 14, Nos. 2,3, Fall/Winter 1987.]

"Shakespeare on the Victorian Stage" edited by Richard Foulkes, The Shakespeare Bulletin, May/June 1988, Vol. 6, No. 3.

"Late Victorian Farce" by Jeffrey H. Huberman, Comparative Drama, Fall 1987, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 293-295.
"Isadora. Portrait of the Artist as a Woman" by Fredrika Blair, Broadside, Vol. 14, No. 4/Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1987, pp. 4-5.

"Jacques Copeau" by John Rudlin, Theatre Research International, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 1987, pp. 184-185.

"English Theatre in Transition 1881-1914" by James Woodfield, Theatre Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, March 1987, p. 129.
"Pierrots on the Stage" by Robert Storey and "Commedia Works" by Ruth E. Peabody, Theatre Research International, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 1987, pp. 76-78.

"The World of Tennessee Williams" by Richard F. Leavitt, Theatre Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4, December 1979, pp. 562-563. [also published in The Tennessee Williams Newsletter, Vol. I, No. 2, Fall 1979, p. 19.]






"'Let's Misbehave': Cole Porter Rarities," ARSC Journal, 2002.

"The Hits of 1930," ARSC Journal, 2002.

"Preserving American Popular Song: The Legacy of William Bolcom and Joan Morris," Popular Music and Society, 2001.

"Let's Go on With the Show: JAY Musical Theatre Recordings," Popular Music and Society, 2001.

Recording Review: Broadway Through the Gramophone. New York in European Footsteps. Volume I. 1844-1909. Pearl/Pavilion Records. GEMS 0082. Two compact discs; Broadway Through the Gramophone. Broadway Prior to World War I. Volume II. 1909-1914. Pearl/Pavilion Records. GEMS 0083. Two compact discs; Broadway Through the Gramophone. The Musical Stage in the War Years. Volume III. 1914-1920. Pearl/Pavilion Records. GEMS 0084. Two compact discs:Broadway Through the Gramophone. From the Great War to the Talkies. Volume IV. 1920-1929. Pearl/Pavilion Records. GEMS 0085. Two compact discs, for ARSC Journal, 2002.

"Irving Berlin in Hollywood," ARSC Journal, Fall 1999, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 194-195.

"From Gershwin's Time. The Original Sounds of George Gershwin 1920-1945," ARSC Journal, Fall 1999, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 195-197.

"Warner Bros. 75 Years of Film Music," ARSC Journal, Spring 1999, Vo. 30, No. 1, pp. 57-59.

"George Gershwin Memorial Concert," ARSC Journal, Spring 1999, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 55-57.

"American Pop: An Audio History. From Minstrel to Mojo: On Record, 1893-1946," ARSC Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 1998, pp. 221-223.

"Star Spangled Rhythm. Voices of Broadway and Hollywood," ARSC Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 1998, pp. 227-228.

"George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood," ARSC Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 1998, pp. 224-226.

"Fred Astaire at M-G-M," ARSC Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 1998, pp. 223-224.

"Rhino Movie Music: Turner Movie Classics' Explosion of Soundtracks and Compilations, 1926-1968. Part II," ARSC Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 129-140.

"Rhino Movie Music: Turner Movie Classics' Explosion of Soundtracks and Compilations, 1926-1968, Part I" ARSC Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 1997, pp. 234-241.

"Carousel of American Music," ARSC Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 1997, pp. 232-234.

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." Popular Music and Society, Summer 1996, Vol. 20.2, pp. 219-220

"King Mackerel and The Blues Are Running." Popular Music and Society, Summer 1996, Vol. 20.2, pp. 223-224.

"Jolson. The Musical." Popular Music and Society, Summer 1996, Vol. 20.2, pp. 221-223.

"Let Me Sing and I'm Happy. Al Jolson at Warner Bros. 1926-1936." ARSC Journal, Spring 1997, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 90-93.

"Judy Garland. Collectors' Gems from the M-G-M Films." ARSC Journal, 1997, Spring 1997, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 89-90.

"Forever Judy," Popular Music and Society, Winter 1994, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 121-125.

"Judy Garland. In Concert--The Beginning and the End" and "Judy Garland à Paris. Olympia. 28 Octobre 1960," ARSC Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 95-97.

"Judy Garland. The One and Only," ARSC Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 1992, pp. 78-80.

"The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings. American Musical Theater. Shows, Songs, and Stars," ARSC Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 128-132.

"Musical Theater on Disc: Five Recent Recordings," a review of recent recordings of Follies, Carousel, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, and West Side Story, Theatre Studies, Winter 1988, Vol. 33, pp. 115-119.




Silent Shakespeare and The Broadway Theatre Archive, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XV, No. 1, Fall 2000, pp. 173-177.

"Brother Bread, Sister Puppet," Puppetry Yearbook, Vol. 3, 1997, pp. 245-246.




Quoted on cover of Picturing Performance by Thomas Heck. New York: Univeristy of Rochester Press, 1999.

Reprint of review of Titus Andronicus included in Titus Andronicus. Critical Essays edited by Philip C. Kolin. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995.

Acknowledgement and photograph in The Triumph of Pierrot by Martin Green and John Swan. Revised Edition. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1993. Photographs of The Bogus Bride (p. 187), Aurelie's Waltz by Arthur Schnitzler (directed by James Fisher; p. 295), Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson (with James Fisher in the role of Matt Friedman; p.136), and acknowledgement of contributions (p. xi) in Theatre. The Human Art by Sam Smiley. NY: Harper and Row, 1987. Acknowledgement in The Triumph of Pierrot by Martin Green and John Swan. NY: Macmillan, 1986, p. xi.

Photograph of The Bogus Bride in The Theatre Student. Playscript Interpretation and Production by Gerald Lee Ratliff. NY: The Rosen Publishing Company, 1985, p. 79.







Lecture: "The Feathers and the Mirrors and the Smoke: Cultural Discontent and the Confluence of Literature and Theatre in Tony Kushner's Plays ," Indiana College English Educators Conference, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN, October 19, 2001.

Panel: Indiana Arts Commission Advisory Panel, May 2001.

Panel: Indiana Arts Commission Advisory Panel, April and July 2000.

Lecture: "'In the Human Company of Angels': Tennessee Williams's Adaptation of Chekhov's The Sea Gull," Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 27, 2000.

Lecture: "The Finger in the Eye: Politics and Literature in the Plays of Dario Fo," Theatre Symposium, April 8, 2000.

Panel: "Alpha Psi Omega," panel chaired by Susan S. Cole, Southeastern Theater Conference, Norfolk, VA, March 4, 2000.

Television Interview: A&E Biography on Spencer Tracy, narrated by Harry Smith. First aired on the Arts & Entertainment Television Network on June 2, 1999.

Lecture: "Between Two Worlds: Ansky's The Dybbuk and Kushner's A Dybbuk," Humanities Colloquium, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, April 23, 1998.

Juror: 1998 Indiana High School Shakespeare Competition, sponsored by the University of Indianapolis and the English-Speaking Union, Indianapolis, IN, February 23, 1998.

Lecture: "'The Angels of Fructification': Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner and Images of Homosexuality on the American Stage," Humanities Colloquium, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, April 1995.

Panel: "Alpha Psi Omega," panel chaired by Jerry Henderson, Southeastern Theater Conference, Norfolk, VA. March 3, 1995.
Lecture: "Fool's Play," The LaFollette Lecture, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, October 29, 1993.

Lecture: "Before the Theory: The Early Theatrical Productions of Edward Gordon Craig," The Newberry Library Fellows' Colloquium Series, Chicago, IL, October 14, 1992.

Lecture: "From Uncle Tom to Sister Mary Ignatius: Censorship in the American Theatre," Continuing Education Program, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, May 22, 1992.

Lecture: "A History of Clowning from Commedia dell'arte to the Present," various high schools, galleries, and museums in Indiana between October 1991 and December 1992.

Lecture: "Controversy, Cops and Commedia: Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist," Theatre Symposium (Southeastern Theatre Conference), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 10-12, 1992.

Panelist, "Commedia dell'arte Performance: Contexts and Contents," Theatre Symposium, Southeastern Theatre Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 10-12, 1992.

"The Bonds of Interest: Commedia dell'arte on the Twentieth Century Spanish Stage," International Congress on Popular Theatre, Berga, Spain, April 1, 1991.

"Alpha Psi Omega," panel chaired by Jerry Henderson, Southeastern Theater Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, March 9, 1991.

"Before the Theory: Edward Gordon Craig at the Opera," XV Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida at Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, March 1, 1991.

"A History of Clowning from Commedia dell'arte to the Present," Emory University, Atlanta, GA, in conjunction with exhibition, February 24, 1991.

"'I Mock, Therefore I Am": Commedia dell'arte and Clowning Through the Centuries," Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY, September 24, 1990.

"Meyerhold in New York?: Vadim Uraneff's Production of The Show Booth (1923)," Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida at Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, March 30, 1990.

"Alpha Psi Omega," panel chaired by Jerry Henderson, Southeastern Theater Conference, Nashville, TN, March 10, 1990.

"Dusting Off Dead People on Deadline," panel chaired by Eric and Barbara Olson, Southeastern Theater Conference, Nashville, TN, March 10, 1990.
"Theatrical Revolution: Edward Gordon Craig's Much Ado About Nothing (1903)," XIII Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida at Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, April 7, 1989.

"Commedia Iconography in the Theatrical Art of Edward Gordon Craig," The Commedia dell'arte from the Renaissance to Dario Fo Conference sponsored by the University College of Wales and the Italian Institute, London, England, November 1988.

"Craig and Duse in the 'Charnel House': Rosmersholm (1906)," XII Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida at Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, March 25, 1988.

"Ellen Terry," Wabash College Womens' Week, Crawfordsville, IN, October 16, 1987.

"'Going A-Viking': Edward Gordon Craig's Production of Ibsen's The Vikings," XI Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida at Gainesville, Gainesville, FL. March 26, 1987.

"You Don't Have to Be British to Do Shakespeare Well," a panel chaired by Barbara Blackledge, Southeastern Theatre Conference, Richmond, VA, March 6, 1987.

"'Much Adoodle-Do': Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry, and Much Ado About Nothing," Ohio Shakespeare Conference, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, February 20, 1987.

"Edward Gordon Craig and the Commedia dell'arte," X Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida at Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, March 24, 1986.

"Towards a New Theater: The Theater of Edward Gordon Craig," Humanities Colloquium at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN. Spring 1985. "A Production of Pseudolus," Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Spring 1983.

Judge of Dramatic Duos, Indiana Thespian Conference, Brazil, IN, Spring 1983. Chairman of Panel on Theater Programs of Limited Size, Indiana Theater Association Convention, Indianapolis, IN, Spring 1983.

"Commedia dell'arte and the Nature of Farce," Humanities Colloquium at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, Spring 1982.

"Stephen Sondheim and Follies," Musical Theatre Workshop at Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, CT, 1979.

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