Publications
2026 (forthcoming)
Querying Integration: The Modernist Musical Dramaturgy of Rodgers & Hammerstein
Book chapter in Rodgers and Hammerstein in Context (William Everett and Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, editors). Cambridge University Press.
July 2026
Theatre Topics Special Issue: "Theatre In Extremis"
Theatre Toipcs 36:2.
2025
Glitter, but Don't Be Gay: Internalized Homophobia and the Many Lives of Candide's Queer Text(s)
Book chapter in Glitter and Be Gay: Homosexualität und Operette, Reloaded (2nd ed., Kevin Clarke, editor). Männerschwarm-Verlag.
2023
Sounds of the City: Musical Migration in A Glance at New York
Book chapter in Migrations in American Theater and Drama (Josefa Fernández Martín, editor). Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2023.
2022
New England Theater Journal: Books in Review
Book reviews introduction, New England Theatre Journal 33.
May 2021
John Knowles
Biographical essay in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context (Linda De Roche, editor). ABC-CLIO/Greenwood.
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2017
Charles Frohman: "King of the Star-Makers"
Book chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theater Producers (William Everett and Laura MacDonald, editors). Palgrave.
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2016
"What a Crescendo—Not to Be Missed": Loudness on the Musical Stage
Studies in Musical Theatre 10:1.
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2016
Book Review of Bernstein Meets Broadway: Art and Collaboration in a Time of War by Carol J. Oja
Contemporary Theatre Review 26:2, pp. 275–6.
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July 2015
Musical of the Month: Little Nemo
Edited edition and critical essay. New York Public Library blog (Doug Reside, curator).
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2015
Book Review of Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method, and Metaphor in Theater-Making by Dan Roesner
Contemporary Theatre Review 25:3, pp. 442–4.
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Summer 2014
"I See, Therefore I Act?": Book Review of Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America by Amy Hughes
Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 14:1.
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June 2014
A Method for Musical Theatre Dramaturgy
Book chapter in The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (Magda Romańska, editor). Routledge.
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2013
In Fair Verona: The Allure of Italy
Production study guide article, Romeo and Juliet, Broadway: 16–7. Used previously for Yale Repertory Theatre, 2011.
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November 2012
Musical of the Month: Evangeline
Edited edition and critical essay. New York Public Library blog (Doug Reside, curator).
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February 2012
Musical of the Month: Shuffle Along
Edited edition and critical essay. New York Public Library blog (Doug Reside, curator).
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2008
Reports on Stage Censorship and Suppression: Italy—Candide Canceled, 2006
Theater magazine 38:3: 51–2.
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