Top 30 most-cited Theatre Journal articles, culled from Google Scholar and Web of Science, ordered by year of publication:
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“Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts” by Sue-Ellen Case (October 1985)
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“Refusing the Romanticism of Identity: Narrative Interventions in Churchill, Benmussa, Duras” by Elin Diamond (October 1985)
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“Theatrical Performance: Illustration, Translation, Fulfillment, or Supplement?” by Marvin Carlson (March 1985)
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“Beyond Brecht: Britain's New Feminist Drama” by Janelle Reinelt (May 1986)
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“The Female Subject in Chicano Theatre: Sexuality, ‘Race,’ and ‘Class’” by Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano (December 1986)
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“Frame-up: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Theatre” by Barbara Freedman (October 1988)
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“Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” by Judith Butler (December 1988)
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“Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation” by Teresa de Lauretis (May 1988)
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“Geographies of Learning: Theatre Studies, Performance, and the ‘Performative’” by Jill Dolan (December 1993)
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“Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism: How ‘Angels in America’ Reconstructs the Nation” by David Savran (May 1995)
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“Outing Whiteness: A Feminist/Lesbian Project” by Kate Davy (May 1995)
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“Preaching to the Converted” by Tim Miller and David Román (May 1995)
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“Performance as Metaphor + Theory of Theatrical Performance” by Bert O. States (March 1996)
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“Shakespeare and Cultural Tourism” by Dennis Kennedy (May 1998)
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“Staging the Pacific: Framing Authenticity in Performances for Tourists at the Polynesian Cultural Center” by Christopher B. Balme (March 1998)
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“The Screen Test of the Double: The Uncanny Performer in the Space of Technology” by Matthew Causey (December 1999)
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“Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's ‘The Sweetest Hangover’ (and Other STDs)” by José Esteban Muñoz (March 2000)
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“(Re)Visions of Race: Contemporary Race Theory and the Cultural Politics of Racial Crossover in Documentary Theatre” by Dorinne Kondo (March 2000)
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“Performance, Utopia, and the ‘Utopian Performative’” by Jill Dolan (October 2001)
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“Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty” by Dwight Conquergood (October 2002)
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“Choreographies of Protest” by Susan L. Foster (October 2003)
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“Curiosity or Contempt: On Spectacle, the Human, and Activism” by Baz Kershaw (December 2003)
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“Marina Abramović: Witnessing Shadows” by Peggy Phelan (December 2004)
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“Toward a Phenomenological Model of the Actor's Embodied Modes of Experience” by Philip B. Zarrilli (December 2004)
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“Foreign Asia/Foreign Shakespeare: Dissenting Notes on New Asian Interculturality, Postcoloniality, and Recolonization” by Rustom Bharucha (March 2004)
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“What Is to Be Remembered?: Tourism to Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons” by Sandra L. Richards (December 2005)
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“The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching” by Harvey Young (December 2005)
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“Theatre/Tourism” by Susan Bennett (October 2005)
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“Interplay: The Method and Potential of a Cognitive Scientific Approach to Theatre” by Amy Cook (December 2007)
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“Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission” by Catherine Cole (May 2007)



