Briefly discusses the potential of radio theater for high school drama. Sketches a modest equipment layout that will provide students with the fundamental combination of hardware and wires to produce audio drama. (PD)

Reviews the principal theories and practices in creative dramatics. Identifies three dominant approaches which have emerged in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and discusses their relationships and practical applications. (PD)

Discusses relating literature to drama and music in order to achieve an integrated language arts curriculum. (HTH)

Argues that good criticism of school dramatic productions requires an open mind and sensitive observation, not preconceived notions and extreme language. (HOD)

Points out similarities between the events and characters of Tennyson's "Maud" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Identifies traits which "Maud" shares with Spasmodic poetry. Argues that Tennyson consciously employed these similarities to expose the deficiencies of the Spasmodic school. (DMM)

Presents criteria for selecting plays for secondary school theater programs to be presented to the public as well as to be studied or produced within the curriculum. Includes consideration of student needs and abilities, appropriateness, budget, and community standards. (JMF)

Describes the 1980 conference of 2400 high school theater students and teachers at Ball State University, sponsored by the International Thespian Society biennially. Five-day schedule included a dozen full-length shows, 60 one-acts, more than 150 workshops covering everything from dialect acting to exotic stage effects. (PD)

Argues that schoolwork with the plays of Shakespeare should be rooted in the twin concepts of performance and audience, for which the teacher needs to understand the scripts in terms of Elizabethan theatrical presentation and response. (FL)

Provides suggestions for film type, light meter modification, composition, and printing when photographing theatre scenes by stage lighting alone. (HTH)

Discusses the publications of W. E. B. Du Bois and lists them in the following categories: books, books containing short stories, poems, short fiction, and dramas. (GT)

Presents the script of a Readers Theater production to complement a previous article on Bertholt Brecht in theory and practice (EJ 225 131). (JMF)

Presents a guide to resources on television drama available to teachers for classroom use in television curriculum. Lists American and British television drama videorecordings of both series and individual presentations and offers a bibliography of "one-off" single fiction plays produced for British television. (JMF)

The article reviews approaches used in several states to identify students gifted in the performing arts. Specific instruments, such as C. Seashore's Measures of Musical Talents, as well as locally created instruments, peer nomination, and product evaluation are considered. (CL)

Describes an approach to teaching dramatic texts based on an attempt to help students contextualize, to educate their expectations. (DD)