This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the development of American theatre management practices between 1830 and 1896; (2) the aesthetics of audience response; (3) P. Picasso as a theatrical designer; (4) six black performers in relation to the Federal Theatre; (5) Makonde oral narrative as theatre; (6) heroes, heroines, and villains in English and American melodrama from 1850 to 1900; (7) the effects of varying focus in solo oral interpretation; (8) black performance in South Africa; (9) the traditional ballad as folksong; (10) freedom and tyranny in the theatre of late Franco Spain; (11) puppetry as a provocative medium in energy education; (12) S. Eisenstein's methods of montage as a paradigm for scripting documentary readers theatre; (13) photographic transparencies as a visual means for a visual subject; (14) theatre and therapy; and (15) attitudes toward educational theatre in two Nigerian colleges of education. (FL)