Journal of American Drama and Theatre (JADT) 38.2 Now Published!

 Special Issue: 100 Years of Du Bois: “Principles of a Real Negro Theatre” and “Criteria of Negro Art”

We are thrilled to announce that the newest special issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre 38.2 is now available. This important special issue was co-edited by Khalid Y. Long & Le’Mil Eiland. All articles, interviews, and reviews are online and open access at https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt.

JADT ISSUE 38.2

Special Issue Introduction

Khalid Y. Long & Le’Mil Eiland

“One Great and Fine Mode of Expression”: On W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exigencies of Black Drama and Theatre

Isaiah Matthew Wooden

Reflections on Fundamental Principles

Jonathan Shandell 

An Expansive “Us”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Pan-Negro” Theatrical Vision

Kellen Hoxworth

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Krigwa Little Negro Theatre Movement in Harlem and Beyond

Kirsten Lee

It Was All a Dream: Shifting Du Boisian Notions in Richard Wesley’s The Talented Tenth

Kristyl D. Tift 

Teaching August Wilson in an Age of Democratic Decline: Du Boisian Imperatives and Black Pedagogy

Omeyėmi (Artisia) Green


Queer Voices

Debbie with a D Talks Theatre with a T

Bess Rowen


Performance Reviews

The Wild Duck

Alexander Miller

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Bess Rowen

Last Call: A Play with Cocktails

Daria Kerschenbaum

The Dinosaurs

Dominic Finocchiaro


Book Reviews

The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

Reviewed by Emma Futhey

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Reviewed by L. Bailey McDaniel

The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice Pedagogy, and Influences

Reviewed by Lynn Deboeck


About JADT

Founded in 1989, JADT is a widely acclaimed peer-reviewed journal publishing thoughtful and innovative work by leading scholars on theatre, drama, and performance in the Americas—past and present. The journal’s provocative articles provide valuable insight and information on the heritage of American theatre, as well as its continuing contribution to world literature and the performing arts. JADT is fully online and freely accessible. Our aim is to promote research on theatre of the Americas and to encourage historical and theoretical approaches to plays, playwrights, performances, and popular theatre traditions. Studies of dramatic texts from a purely literary perspective are outside the scope of the journal. 

We are currently accepting submissions for essays, performance reviews, and book reviews on topics relating to theatre, drama, and popular entertainments of the Americas for consideration. We accept submission on a rolling basis.

Please email the editors with inquiries. Completed manuscripts and reviews should be submitted to jadtjournal@gmail.com.

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