Wagner, Anton, Herman Voaden's Symphonic Expressionism:   A Thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Toronto, 1984

Wagner, Anton,  "A Herman Voaden Bibliography"

Piitulainen, H. 4S2, "The Annual School Concert" Central High School of Commerce The Torpedo, 1932. p. 21.

Bridle, Augustus, "Drama Is Presented in Lights and Colors: 'Rocks' Written and Produced by Member of School of Commerce Staff" Toronto Star, April 23, 1932

Mason, Lawrence, "'Symphonic Expressionism': Notable Recent Example in Toronto of Ultra-Modern Producing Methods -- Plea for Less Persistent Use of Realism by Canadian Directors" Toronto Globe, April 30, 1932, p. 6

Wodson, Edward W., "Not an Accent Raised, Telling Tragic Stories: Students at the Central High Stage Remarkable North Ontario Play -- Symphony of Light" Toronto Telegram, September 24, 1932

Charlesworth, Hector, "Unique Dramatics" Saturday Night, Vol. 47, October 1, 1932 p. 8

E.A.D. (Ernest A. Dale), "Mr. Voaden's Rocks" Canadian Forum, Vol. 13, November 1932, pp. 75-76

Farquharson, Rica McLean,"New Work by Voaden Is Drama in Rhythm" Toronto Mail and Empire, December 19, 1932

Mason, Lawrence, "Sarnia Does It Again" Toronto Globe, December 24, 1932

Howard, R. V.,"Earth Song" Saturday Night, December 31, 1932

Mason, Lawrence, "A Beautiful Play" Toronto Globe, December 14, 1934

Sandwell, B. K., "At the Theatre" Saturday Night, December 22, 1934

McCarthy, Pearl, "Schools Contribute to Drama Festival: Play Workshop Provides Gripping and Original Symbolic Piece" Toronto Mail and Empire, March 28, 1935, p. 9

Morley, Malcolm, "Toronto Festival" Saturday Night, December 7, 1935

Bridle, Augustus, "'Symphonic' Murder Is Skillfully Written: Voaden's Third Four-Dimensional Play, Great Advance on Former Productions" Toronto Star, February 1, 1936, p. 17

Mason, Lawrence, "Play Workshop Offering" Toronto Globe, February 8, 1936, p. 10

Sandwell, B. K.,"Festival Brings Out Better Canadian Plays" Saturday Night, April 4, 1936, p. 13, 19

Young, Roly, "Colorful Murder" in "Rambling 'Round With Roly" Toronto Mail and Empire, October 26, 1936

Bridle, Augustus,"New Voaden Drama Is Work of Genius: Author Directs Own Epic of Complex Fabrication and Design" Toronto Star, April 14, 1942, p. 16

Charlesworth, Hector, "Story of Boy Depicted in Hart House Drama" Toronto Globe and Mail, April 14, 1942

Macdonald, Rose, "Arts Finely Inter-Twined in 'Ascend As the Sun'" Toronto Telegram, April 14, 1942, p. 13

Middleton, J. E., "Ad Astra" Saturday Night, April 25, 1942, p. 28

Milne, W. S., "Drama" in Letters in Canada: 1942 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1943, 326

Evans, Chad, "Herman Voaden and the Symphonic Theatre" Canadian Theatre Review , No. 5, Winter 1975. pp. 37-43

Anthony, Geraldine, "Preface" to "Herman Voaden" in Geraldine Anthony, ed., Stage Voices: Twelve Canadian Playwrights Talk About Their Lives and Work. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1978, 28-32

Leggatt, Alexander, "Playwrights in a Landscape: The Changing Image of Rural Ontario" Theatre History in Canada, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1980, pp. 135-42

Field, Alan, "Herman Voaden and the Test of Time" Canadian Theatre Review, No. 25, Winter 1980. pp. 91-95

Grace, Sherrill, "A Northern Quality: Herman Voaden's Canadian Expressionism" Canadian Drama, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1982. pp. 1-14

Wagner, Anton, "A Country of the Soul: Herman Voaden, Lowrie Warrener and the Writing of Symphony" Canadian Drama, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1983, pp. 203-19

Perkyns, Richard, "Pioneers: Two Contrasting Dramatic Treatments" Canadian Drama, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1984, pp. 56-64

Grace, Sherrill E., "Another Part in the Brooker Quartettttte'" Canadian Drama Vol. 11, No. 1, 1985. pp. 251-253 

Wagner, Anton," Herman Voaden's 'New Religion'" Theatre History in Canada, Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1985, pp. 187-201

Grace, Sherrill, "Herman Voaden's Murder Pattern: 1936 and 1987" Canadian Drama, Vol 13. No. 1, 1987, pp 117-19

Clark, William, "'Grand old man' Voaden sees play revived at 84" Toronto Star, April 5, 1987. p. D6

Wagner, Anton, "'God Crucified Upside Down': The Search for Dramatic Form and Meaning in Bertram Brooker and Emergent Modernism. Jennifer Oille Sinclair, ed." Provincial Essays, Vol. 7, 1989, pp. 38-51

Jorgensen,Birgitte, "A Tribute to Herman Voaden in recognition of his contribution to Canadian theatre for more than half a century" Playwrights Union of Canada CanPlay, December 1989. pp. 9, 11

_______, "Playwright Herman Voaden 'had a fabulously happy life'" Toronto Star , June 29,1991. p. A13

Equity Showcase, "In the beginning was geography" Equity Showcase announcement, October 23, 1992

Friedlander, Mira, “Voaden's land-rooted play perfect fit for dramaturge” Toronto Star, December 3, 1992. p. G12

Wagner, Anton, "A Theatre of Beauty: Herman Voaden's Symphonic Expressionism" in A Vision of Canada: Herman Voaden's Dramatic Works 1928 -1945. Anton Wagner, ed. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1993, pp 10-60

Johnston, Denis,  "Director's Notes" [for Murder Pattern reading] Shaw Festival playbill, July 23, 1996

Perkins, Martha, "Murder Pattern: The lines between fact and fiction blur in a play which dramatizes a real-life murder in Lutterworth" Haliburton County Echo, May 13, 1997, pp. 29-33

Riley, Kerry, (review), "A Vision of Canada: Herman Voaden's Dramatic Works 1928-1945" Edited by Anton Wagner, Haliburton County Echo, August 11, 1997

Owen, David, "Director's Note" in program for the University of Alberta Abbedan Theatre production of Hill-Land. November 18, 1997

Kertesz, Viviane, "A Canadian Cultural Resurrection" University of Western Ontario Gazette , Vol. 91, Issue 63, January 21, 1998

Nothof, Anne F., "Staging a Woman Painter's Life: Six Versions of Emily Carr" Mosaic, Vol. 31, No. 3 September 1998, pp. 83-109

Karrasch, Anke,   "A Stage Experiment: Herman Voaden's Concept of Symphonic Expressionism - National Theatre and Drama in Canada" Published in the Festschrift for Heinz Kosok on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama in English. Jürgen Kamm, ed. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1999, 817-831

Whittaker, Robin, "Divine 'Northern' Identity: Herman Voaden and the Spirit of Canadian Theatre"A paper originally submitted to Dr. Alex Hawkins as the final paper for his seminar class in Early Canadian Drama in December, 1999 at the Drama Department of the University of Alberta.

MacKay, Pamela, "Rocks" June 1, 2000 director's notes for A.Y. Jackson Secondary School Millennium Arts Celebration program, Toronto

Wagner, Anton, "Creating a Canadian Imaginative Background: Herman Voaden and Symphonic Expressionism" in Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories. Selma Landen Odom and Mary Jane Warner, eds. Toronto: Dance Collection Danse, 2004.

Lindgren, Allana, "Modernist Performance and Interdisciplinarity: An Overview of Herman Voaden’s Use of Dance in Symphonic Expressionism" [2005]