Recently added articles from The Journal of American Drama and Theatre:

SINGING HER OWN SONG: WRITING THE FEMALE PRESS AGENT BACK INTO HISTORY

Apr 01, 2008; Schweitzer, Marlis ... In 1902, the Grand Rapids Herald offered compelling evidence of women's incursions into the field of press agency:1 Only a few years ago a woman "advance man" was a being unknown, unhonored, and unsung, but now she is coming right along singing her own song, or the song of her "star," ...

MAKING IT REAL? THEATRE IN TIMES OF VIRTUAL WARFARE1

Apr 01, 2008; Saal, Ilka ... Compared to fiction or film, theatre tends to react fairly swiftly to contemporary geopolitical crises such as the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq,2 for instance, by alluding to them in the mise-en-scène of a production or by promptly reviving classic war dramas such as The Persians, ...

EGGHEADS AND WITCHES: MOLLY KAZAN BOILS THE LEFT

Apr 01, 2008; Witham, Barry B ... Molly Day Thacher Kazan died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage three weeks after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and her funeral, like many other events that cold winter, was obscured by a nation in mourning. Those attending, however, had to be content with standing room only among a roster ...

(RE)CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY: HARLEM EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE AND SOCIAL PROTEST

Apr 01, 2008; Macki, Adrienne C ... This Hole is our inheritance of sorts. Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play Absence, invisibility, a hole: these obstacles challenge an understanding of African American theatre history of the early twentieth century.1 Though the records of production at noncommercial black ...

A NATION IN NEED: REVELATIONS AND DISASTER RELIEF IN THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT

Apr 01, 2008; Osborne, Elizabeth ... The movement of flood waters is an example of the blind legality-one might almost say constitutionality-of Nature. There is no appeal from it, and no amending process.1 R. L. Duffus In January of 1937, the upper Midwest experienced one of the most costly disasters in its history ....

INTRODUCTION

Apr 01, 2008; Nathans, Heather S ... It is a great pleasure to introduce this exciting collection of essays written and edited by members of the American Theatre and Drama Society. ATDS has enjoyed a long and productive relationship with The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and we are excited to see that collaboration enter ...

"IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE COMRADE": THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN IDEALS IN ROOM SERVICE

Apr 01, 2008; Trainor, Sebastian ... Today the names Alien Boretz and John Murray are no longer widely recognized. Seventy years ago, however, they were the celebrated co-authors of the most successful Broadway script ever produced.1 That script-a farce entitled Room Service-remains a staple of the American theatre even now.2 Yet, ...