The contents of this issue consist of two articles, Readers Theatre as a Humanizing Process by Wallace Bacon and The Secret of Individual Progress in Art by Paul Gregory, and the 1974 readers theatre bibliography. Items are listed in the bibliography in four categories: plays, poetry, programs, and prose. In addition, the dates and places of…

Discovers the lack of attention given to plays for young adults in most published booklists, and follows with a list of recent works for junior and senior high readers. (CRH)

This selective bibliography, a guide to scholarship in the American drama and related subjects, provides coverage of the major works and topics, with emphasis on work published in the 20th century. Unpublished dissertations, most literary histories, and short notes and explications are omitted. Entries are listed under the general topics of…

This index to commentaries on modern playwrights and their plays contains approximately 12,000 entries on 300 American and foreign playwrights, the majority of which are from the twentieth century. Intended for the student, this volume is organized in a single alphabetical listing. Under each playwright's name is a general section where…

Presents a list of the various texts of Williams's plays which were published prior to 1977, including plays produced but not yet published. Notes the existence of unpublished versions of printed plays when such were used for a production. (JMF)

This index is published by the Theatre/Drama and Speech Information Center, whose objectives are (1) to publish current and retrospective bibliographies providing access to journal literature, pamphlets, bibliographies, and other materials not currently indexed; (2) to provide specific bibliographic services for individuals; (3) to provide…

Gives the background of the Chicano theater with emphasis on the contemporary Chicano movement and the Teatro Campesino, along with a 102-item bibliography. (NQ)

This index, published by the Theatre/Drama and Speech Information Center, covers over 60 journals from fifteen countries. Devoted mostly to drama and dramatic presentations on the stage (including technical aspects related to performance), the index is designed as a guide for scholarly theatre research, for individual awareness, for play…

This book, comprising about 600 entries, is an attempt to compile a comprehensive general bibliography of modern Irish drama. Other bibliographies have been selective or have dealt mainly with individual playwrights, but this volume attempts to update and consolidate in one volume all the existing bibliographies containing secondary material, plus…

This bibliography is intended to (1) encourage research in contemporary black American drama, which between 1955 and 1970 played an important part in American theatre activity; (2) facilitate comparative examinations into the differences and similarities between black drama and drama of other American minority groups; and (3) serve as a…

Several plays are studied to introduce students to theatrical terms and to the elements of a play in this quinmester course for Dade County High Schools. Several approaches to the study of the play are suggested such as individual and a large group production of a play, the use of a unified theme such as Youth vs. Tradition, or the line of…

Cites 217 projects representing 39 institutions in the United States. (Author/RB)

Cites 157 projects representing 29 institutions in the United States. (Author/RD)

This play-choosing guide is designed to help amateur theatrical companies in matching the casting, staging, costuming, and financial resources at their disposal with the corresponding requirements of about a hundred full-length plays. The plays have been divided into three categories: farces and comedies, drama, and thrillers and mysteries, and…