<div dir="ltr"><div><div><i style="font-size:16px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>**Now Available Online**</b></font></i></div><div><i style="font-size:16px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></i></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Journal of American Drama and Theatre (JADT)</font></a></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Volume 37 Issue 2 (Spring 2025)</b></font></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><u>SPECIAL ISSUE</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i>*Censorship/Public Censure*</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><i>Guest Editors:</i> David Bisaha and Pria Ruth Williams</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><u><br></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/censorship%2Fpublic-censure-and-performance-today%3A-an-introduction" target="_blank">Introduction</a></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">David Bisaha and Pria Ruth Williams</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/censorship-drums-father-ned" target="_blank"><i>Remembering Censorship in the World Premiere of Seán O’Casey’s </i>The Drums of Father Ned<i>: Lafayette, Indiana, 1959</i></a></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">Nic Barilar</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/stage-networked-battleground" target="_blank">The Stage as Networked Battleground: Dissent and Censorship in Contemporary Canadian Theatre and Performance</a></i></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">Donia Mounsef</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/censure-roundtable" target="_blank">Censor/Censure: A Roundtable</a></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">Pria Ruth Williams, Claire Syler, Amy Hughes, Karen Jean Martinson, David Bisaha</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/prior-restraint-soft-censorship" target="_blank">Which of These Are Censorship? The Divide Between Prior Restraint and Soft Censorship</a></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">Rowan Jalso</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/artist-response-censorship-uk" target="_blank">How Can an Artist Respond to Censorship? The Dilemma That Faces Contemporary Creatives in the UK</a></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">Patrizia Paolini</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><u><b>QUEER VOICES</b></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/lgbtq-artists-archive-roundtable" target="_blank">The LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project: A Roundtable Conversation</a></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">Benjamin Gillespie</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><i><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/life-drag-rachel-rampleman-interview" target="_blank">Life is Drag: Documenting Spectacle as Resistance: An Interview with Rachel Rampleman</a></i></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">Benjamin Gillespie</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><u><b>BOOK REVIEWS</b></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><u><b><br></b></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt"><b><a href="https://www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/middle-eastern-american-theatre-book-review" target="_blank"><i>Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists</i> by Michael Malek Najjar</a></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt">Reviewed by Megan Stahl</p><p class="MsoNormal" style=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