Research

Lindsey’s research centers around representations of disability and madness in the American musical as it intersects with race and gender. Deeply informed by her work as a dramaturg, she utilizes performance studies, critical theory, disability studies, and feminist theory frameworks to analyze musical theatre as a critical site of cultural production that responds to sociopolitical happenings.

As a scholar, she has published work on musical theatre, madness, disability, dramaturgy, and performance studies in peer-reviewed journals and anthologies.

Publications

  • “Beyond Access Overtures: Disability Cultures in Musical Theatre,” Co-editor with Caitlin Marshall and Samuel Yates. Special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre. 19, no. 2. (Forthcoming)

  • “Constituencies of Care: Reimagining Access in Theatre Pedagogy.” Theatre Topics, 34, no. 3: (forthcoming).

    “Waving Through a Window: Prosthetic Memory and Nostalgia in Dear Evan Hansen.” Studies in Musical Theatre, 14, no. 3: 313-320.

  • “Toward a Mad Feminist Dramaturgy,” in Contemporary Feminisms in Musical Theatre, ed. Clare Chandler and Sherrill Gow (London: Routledge), forthcoming).

    “Disability and Female Desire: Multi-Modal Exploration in Deaf West’s Spring Awakening,” in Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre, ed. Kate Mulley (London: Routledege), forthcoming.

    “Mourning Mothers: Historicizing Madness as Deviant Motherhood in Next to Normal” in (M)other Perspectives: Staging the Maternal in 21st Century Theatre and Performance, edited by Lynn Deboeck and Aoise Stratford. London: Routledge. 129-145.

    “How a World Can Seem So Vast: The Craft of Musical Theatre Dramaturgy” in The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre, edited by Ryan Donovan and Laura MacDonald. Co-authored with Laura MacDonald. London: Routledge, 39-53.

  • Seriously Mad: Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical, by Aleksei Grinenko. Book Review. Studies in Musical Theatre. 18, no. 2 (forthcoming).

    “The Making of a Conference: Practices in Transnational Planning, Programming, and Translation.” LMDA Review, 27, no.1: 3-8.

    The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, edited by Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman. Book Review. Theatre Annual, 43.

  • “The Hidden Code in Wilde’s Earnest: An Interview with Director Joseph W. Ritsch and Production Dramaturg Lindsey R. Barr” The Baltimore Sun, December 13, 2018.

    “Sweat in Baltimore with Lindsey R. Barr,” Interview. The Context: A Podcast for the Dramaturgy of All Things Awesome. Created and hosted by Kate Langsdorf. October 23, 2018.