Professor of Theater James Fisher edited Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays, for publication in June 2006. His essay, "Political Catharsis: Dario Fo and the Puppet" was published in The Puppetry Yearbook, Vol. VI (2005); "Introduction: The Feathers and the Mirrors and the Smoke" in The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope" in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 203; "John Van Druten" and "George Cukor" in The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era; "Plays" and "Screenplays" in Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia; and "The Progress of Death in the Land of Pure Delight: Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Browne," in Tony Kushner.
Fisher’s theater review of One Arm by Tennessee Williams, adapted and directed by Moises Kaufman at Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL, was published in the October 2005 TheatreJournal
His play, The Braggart Soldier, freely adapted from Plautus’s Miles Gloriosus and the traditions of commedia dell’arte, will be presented at Wabash College, April 19-22, 2006.
Fisher also gave a lecture, "The Advantage of Controversy: Angels in America and the Campus Culture Wars," at the Southeastern Theatre Conference Theatre Symposium "Theatre and the Moral Order," March 31-April 2, 2006.