This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: an examination of inexperienced actors performing the plays of William Shakespeare; an investigation of the philosophies and practices of a summer theatre producer and manager; the effects of human focus drama on children; the Occupational Safety and Health Act applied to contemporary United States theatre; the effects of psychodrama on verbal skills; an analysis of young theatre audience response; identification and analysis of theatre competencies for high school theatre teachers; an adaptation of narrative fiction to readers theatre performance; drama and theatre in higher education; the reader-text relationship in the interpretive performance experience; effects of creative drama on specified content areas and self concept; a dramatic experience in a fifth grade classroom; educational theatre philosophy; a descriptive study of introduction to the theatre; the relationship between oral interpretation and literary concept; and a study of Hiram Corson: interpretive reader, English teacher, and literary scholar. (MAI)