This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles are as follows: (1) Physical and Oral Behaviors of the Solo Interpretive Performer; (2) Music in English Children's Drama; (3) Playwriting in the Maritime Provinces: 1845-1903; (4) Dance in Denver's Pioneer Theatres: 1859-1871; (5) The American Shakespeare Theatre: A Production History, 1955-1984; (6) The Vanquished Christ of Modern Passion Drama; (7) The One-Person Show in America: From the Victorian Platform to the Contemporary Stage; (8) Directing Tragedy: An Exploration of the Staging Problems and Stage History of Macbeth as a Tragic Form; (9) Native Americans as Shown on the Stage, 1753-1916; (10) A Poetic/Dramatic Approach to Facilitate Oral Communication; (11) Acting and Directing with the Aid of Music and Sound; (12) Playwriting Contests and Jacksonian Democracy, 1829-1841; (13) Rhetorical Strategies of Chicago Regional Theatres in the 1970's: A Case Study of Audience Development; (14) Theatre in Wartime Britain, 1793-1802; (15) Drama in Newfoundland Society: The Community Concert; (16) Gold Rush Theatre in the Alaska-Yukon Frontier; (17) The Play's the Thing: A Theatrical Model for Presenting Authors in the English Classroom; and (18) Drama in Opera: A Logic of Opera and of Opera Criticism. (DF)