This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) creative dramatics and theatre arts among socially and emotionally handicapped inner-city adolescents; (2) The Toone Marionette Theater of Brussels; (3) Mexican playwrights; (4) alternative playwriting procedures; (5) the emergence of lesbians and gay men as characters in plays produced on the American stage from 1922 to 1954; (6) the oral interpreter's preparation of lyric poetry for performance; (7) black theatre in New York City from 1920 to 1929; (8) the Leningrad Theatre of Young Spectators from 1922 to 1941; and (9) the black theatre movement of the 1960s and 1970s. (RL)