This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: (1) children's theatre activities at Karamu House in Cleveland, Ohio; (2) the development, implementation, and significance of story theatre as a theatrical art form and performance technique; (3) the influence of the Del Sarte system of expression on American acting from 1871 until 1970; (4) modifying creative drama for senior adult participants; (5) music as an integral design element of theatrical production; (6) multimedia projected scenery in three New York City Opera productions directed by Frank Corsaro; (7) contemporary solo performance of Homer's "Iliad" in translation; (8) readers theatre and Japanese No theatre; (9) sexual reform on the American stage in the Progressive Era (1900-1915); (10) the aesthetic receptivity of a dramatic art work; (11) the fairy tale in modern drama; (12) acting problems in creating a role for one-performer biography/drama; (13) conflicting concepts of the Federal Theatre Project; (14) play theory and the performance of literature; (15) images of black women in the plays of black female playwrights from 1950 to 1975; and (16) loneliness as motive, theme, and strategy in American theatre of the 1960s. (FL)