Selected Articles and Book Chapters

Journal Articles:

Hamilton’s Women.”  Studies in Musical Theatre 12.2 (2018): 167-80.

“’The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music’: Musical Theatre at Girls’ Jewish Summer Camps in Maine, USA.”  Contemporary Theatre Review 27.1 (2017): 46-60.

“Performing Jewishness In and Out of the Classroom.” Co-authored with Jill Dolan. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 37.2 (Summer 2012): 201-215.

Wicked’s Women and Other Queer Conventions in the 21st Century Broadway Musical.” Theatre Journal 60.1 (March 2008): 1-21.

Wicked Divas, Musical Theater, and Internet Girl Fans.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 65 (2007): 39-71.

“In Defense of Pleasure: Musical Theatre History in the Liberal Arts [A Manifesto].”  Theatre Topics 17.1 (March 2007): 51-60.

“’We’ll Always Be Bosom Buddies’: Female Duets and the Queering of Broadway Musical Theatre.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12.3 (2006): 351-76.

“‘Something Better than This’:  Sweet Charity and the Feminist Utopia of Broadway Musicals.” Modern Drama (Special Issue on Utopian Performatives) 47.2 (Summer 2004): 309-32.

“Civilizing and Selling Spectators: Audiences at the Madison Civic Center.” Theatre Survey 39.2 (November 1998): 7-23.

“Rehearsing for Revolution: Practice, Theory, Race, and Pedagogy (When Failure Works).” Co-written with Wendy R. Coleman. Theatre Topics 8.1 (March 1998): 13-31.

“‘Never Gonna Be a Man/Catch Me if You Can/I Won’t Grow Up’: A Lesbian Account of Mary Martin as Peter Pan.” Theatre Journal 49.4 (December 1997): 493-509.

“Desire in Evidence.” Text and Performance Quarterly 17.4 (October 1997): 343-351.

“The Queer Pleasures of Mary Martin and Broadway: The Sound of Music as a Lesbian Musical.” Modern Drama 39.1 (Spring 1996): 51-63.

“The Queer Performances of Mary Martin as Woman and as Star.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 8.2 (1996) (Special Issue on “Queer Acts”): 225-239.

“Talking About Pornography, Talking About Theatre: Ethnography, Critical Pedagogy, and the Production of ‘Educated’ Audiences of Etta Jenks in Madison.” Theatre Research International 19.1 (Spring 1994): 29-36.

“All About Eve: Madison’s Apple Island and the Fictions of Lesbian Community.” New Theatre Quarterly 37 (February 1994): 28-32.

“Meanings of ‘Community’ in Community Theatre: Audiences at the Madison Theatre Guild.” Theatre InSight 5.1 (December 1993): 15-18.

“Politics, Polyphony, and Pleasure: The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Seeing Double.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 8.1 (Fall 1993): 101-115.

“Trinh Minh-Ha’s ‘Difference’ and a Pedagogical Metaphor.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 6.1 (1993): 31-40.

“Re/presenting Violence, Re/presenting Gender: Feminism, Form, and the Plays of Maria Irene Fornes.” Theatre Studies 37 (1992): 17-31. Reprinted in Feminist Theory and Modern Drama. Ed. Taisha Abraham. New Delhi, India: Pencraft International (2005).

 

Book Chapters:

“Introduction.”  Media and Performance in the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 2.  Ed. Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf.  New York: Oxford UP, 2018.  1-7.

“Making Musicals for Serious Pleasure.” A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical.  Ed. Elizabeth L. Wollman. New York:  Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.  198-213.

“Not Only on Broadway:  Disney Junior Across the US.”  The Disney Musical:  Stage, Screen, and Beyond.  Ed. George Rodosthenous.  London: Methuen Bloomsbury, 2017.  133-54.

The Feminine Mystique Goes to Broadway:  Housewives in 1960s Musical Theater.”  The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade.  Ed. James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal. Ann Arbor:  U of Michigan Press, 2017.  27-51.

“Dance in the Broadway Musical.”  Co-authored with Liza Gennaro.  Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre.  Ed. Nadine George-Graves.  New York:  Oxford UP, 2015.  148-68.

“Keeping Company with Sondheim’s Women.”  Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies.  Ed. Robert Gordon.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.  365-383.

“The 2003-2004 Season and Broadway Musical Theatre as a Political Conversant.”  Patriotic Dissent: Staging Political Protest since 9/11.  Ed. Jenny Spencer.  New York: Routledge, 2012. 19-37.

“Gender and Sexuality.”  Oxford Handbook of the American Musical.  Ed. Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 210-224.

“Introduction.”  Oxford Handbook of the American Musical.  Ed. Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 3-6.

“American Musical Theatre: A Review Essay.” Text and Presentation. Ed. Stratos E. Constantinidis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 205-211. (not juried)

“Teaching Engendered Bodies.” Radical Acts:  Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change. Ed. Ann Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Juhl. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2007. 171-79.

“Disability’s Invisibility in Joan Schenkar’s Signs of Life and Heather McDonald’s An Almost Holy Picture.” Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance. Eds. Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 302-18.

“Barbra’s ‘Funny Girl’ Body.” Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. Eds. Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 246-65.  Also published in The Scholar and the Feminist XXX:  Past Controversies, Present Challenges, Future Feminisms 3.3-4 (Fall 2005). http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/sfxxx/documents/wolf.pdf

“Desire in Evidence.” Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women’s Autobiography. Eds. Lynn Miller, Jacqueline Taylor, and M. Heather Carver. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 84-95.

“‘Being’ a Lesbian: Apple Island and the Performance of Community.” The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theatre. Eds. Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 183-202.

“Local Negotiations: Student Spectators and Etta Jenks.” Perspectives on Teaching Theatre. Eds. Raynette Halvorsen Smith, Bruce A. McConachie, and Rhonda Blair. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 77-87.

“Screening ‘Woman’: An Introduction to Feminist Film Theory in the United States and Britain.” Sexuality and Popular Culture. Ed. Jung-Soon Shim. Seoul, Korea: Tongin Publishing Company and Women’s Culture and Research Center of Soongsil University, 2001. 103-32.  (Published in Korean)

“Reading Glamour Magazine: The Production of ‘Woman.’“ Teaching Introduction to Women’s Studies. Eds. Barbara Scott Winkler and Carolyn DiPalma. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. 175-82.

“Mary Martin: Washin‘ That Man Right Outta Her Hair.” Passing Performances: Notable Gays and Lesbians in American Theatre History. Eds. Kim Marra and Robert Schanke. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 283-302.

“Playing with Gender: Lesbian Identities, Theatricality, and the Social in Joan Lipkin’s Small Domestic Acts.” Amazon All-Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays. Ed. Rosemary Keefe Curb. New York: Applause Books, 1996. 223-26.

 

Media Publications and Interviews:

“Women in The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Production Handbook, Disney Theatricals Script Consultant, 2018, 67-71.   https://www.mtishows.com/sites/default/files/hunchback_of_notre_dame.pdf

“Theatre History Podcast #42:  From West Side Story to Wicked:  Dr. Stacy Wolf on Feminism & the Broadway Musical” (August 8, 2017).  http://howlround.com/theatre-history-podcast-42-from-west-side-story-to-wicked-dr-stacy-wolf-on-feminism-the-broadway

“Statues.”  The Pocket Instructor: Literature.  Eds. Diana Fuss and William A. Gleason.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2016.  151-55.

Comment in “LGBTQ Historical Scholarship: What Was It Like Twenty Years Ago?” ed. Robert A. Schanke Kim Marra, Theatre Topics 26.1 (March 2016): 35-37.

“The State of the Field:  Musical Theatre Studies,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 28.1 (Winter 2016).  http://jadtjournal.org/2016/03/23/musical-theatre-studies/

Hamilton.”  Feminist Spectator Blog (February 24, 2016).  http://feministspectator.princeton.edu/2016/02/24/hamilton/

“How to Make Broadway Musical Theatre More Diverse . . . and Empower Kids Along the Way.”  Huffington Post (June 8, 2015).  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-wolf/how-to-make-broadway-musical-theater-more-diverse-and-empower-kids-along-the-way_b_7523734.html

“Into the Woods,” Feminist Spectator blog (December 27, 2014).  http://www.thefeministspectator.com/2014/12/27/guest-post-into-the-woods/

“Engaging in Sondheim’s Musicals.” The Sondheim Review (Fall 2014): 11-14.

“Reflections from Former Editors (2001-2003).” Theatre Topics 24.2 (June 2014):  77-79.

“Why we love ‘Les Miserables,’ despite its miserable gender stereotypes.” Washington Post (December 30, 2012).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-we-love-les-miserables-despite-its-miserable-gender-stereotypes/2012/12/28/bc8ef17e-4f84-11e2-839d-d54cc6e49b63_story.html

(Also syndicated as http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/stacy-wolf-the-letdown-of-les-miz-i-love-the-production-but-feminists-like-me-are-tired-of-the-stereotypes-668665/ ; http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20130104-stacy-wolf-loving-les-miz-despite-the-miserable-stereotypes.ece ; http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/stacy-wolf-why-we-love-les-miz-despite-its-miserable/article_41f2c3a4-551b-11e2-9f86-0019bb2963f4.html ;

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/is-the-success-of-les-mis-bad-for-women-20130104-2c8o7.html; cited as a top story of the week in http://www.goldderby.com/news/3802/les-mis-bruce-springsteen-adele-entertainment-news-21346577.html; quoted on Martin Bashir on msnbc: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/50347159)

“The Women of Les Miz.” Oxford University Press Blog (December 25, 2012). http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/female-characters-les-miserables-musical/

“Princeton Atelier and the One-Act Opera Project.” Interview WHYY television (October 2012). www.whyy.org/tv12/fridayarts/artoflife201210.html).

“Momma Said There’d Be Dates Like This.”  More Magazine (May 2012). http://www.more.com/relationships/dating-sex-love/momma-said-thered-be-dates

“Mad Men and How to Succeed.”  Huffington Post (March 2012). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-wolf/mad-men_b_1387915.html

Scholar Spotlight, Interview by Mary Jo Lodge, ATHE News 22.2 (22 February 2008).  http://www.athe.org/newsletter/080222-fa2z.html

“Stage Door Jennies,” Interview by Brett Farmer, Genders 38 (2003).  http://www.genders.org/g38/g38_farmer.html

Interview on Jewish Divas, “Beyond the Pale,” WBAI Radio, New York (February 2000).