30 Most-Cited TJ Articles

Top 30 most-cited Theatre Journal articles, culled from Google Scholar and Web of Science, ordered by year of publication:

 

  1. “Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts” by Sue-Ellen Case (October 1985)

  2. “Refusing the Romanticism of Identity: Narrative Interventions in Churchill, Benmussa, Duras” by Elin Diamond (October 1985)

  3. “Theatrical Performance: Illustration, Translation, Fulfillment, or Supplement?” by Marvin Carlson (March 1985)

  4. “Beyond Brecht: Britain's New Feminist Drama” by Janelle Reinelt (May 1986)

  5. “The Female Subject in Chicano Theatre: Sexuality, ‘Race,’ and ‘Class’” by Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano (December 1986)

  6. “Frame-up: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Theatre” by Barbara Freedman (October 1988)

  7. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” by Judith Butler (December 1988)

  8. “Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation” by Teresa de Lauretis (May 1988)

  9. “Geographies of Learning: Theatre Studies, Performance, and the ‘Performative’” by Jill Dolan (December 1993)

  10. “Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism: How ‘Angels in America’ Reconstructs the Nation” by David Savran (May 1995)

  11. “Outing Whiteness: A Feminist/Lesbian Project” by Kate Davy (May 1995)

  12. “Preaching to the Converted” by Tim Miller and David Román (May 1995)

  13. “Performance as Metaphor + Theory of Theatrical Performance” by Bert O. States (March 1996)

  14. “Shakespeare and Cultural Tourism” by Dennis Kennedy (May 1998)

  15. “Staging the Pacific: Framing Authenticity in Performances for Tourists at the Polynesian Cultural Center” by Christopher B. Balme (March 1998)

  16. “The Screen Test of the Double: The Uncanny Performer in the Space of Technology” by Matthew Causey (December 1999)

  17. “Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's ‘The Sweetest Hangover’ (and Other STDs)” by José Esteban Muñoz (March 2000)

  18. “(Re)Visions of Race: Contemporary Race Theory and the Cultural Politics of Racial Crossover in Documentary Theatre” by Dorinne Kondo (March 2000)

  19. “Performance, Utopia, and the ‘Utopian Performative’” by Jill Dolan (October 2001)

  20. “Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty” by Dwight Conquergood (October 2002)

  21. “Choreographies of Protest” by Susan L. Foster (October 2003)

  22. “Curiosity or Contempt: On Spectacle, the Human, and Activism” by Baz Kershaw (December 2003)

  23. “Marina Abramović: Witnessing Shadows” by Peggy Phelan (December 2004)

  24. “Toward a Phenomenological Model of the Actor's Embodied Modes of Experience” by Philip B. Zarrilli (December 2004)

  25. “Foreign Asia/Foreign Shakespeare: Dissenting Notes on New Asian Interculturality, Postcoloniality, and Recolonization” by Rustom Bharucha (March 2004)

  26. “What Is to Be Remembered?: Tourism to Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons” by Sandra L. Richards (December 2005)

  27. “The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching” by Harvey Young (December 2005)

  28. “Theatre/Tourism” by Susan Bennett (October 2005)

  29. “Interplay: The Method and Potential of a Cognitive Scientific Approach to Theatre” by Amy Cook (December 2007)

  30. “Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission” by Catherine Cole (May 2007)