Call for Papers: the Black Theatre Review. Vol. 4 No. 1 “Our stories and achievements had been carried by the wind and buried in the soil. It had been whispered as bedtime stories, spoken from the pulpits on Sunday mornings, and woven throughout our songs and poems of resistance and survival. America did not have […]
Published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes (TPNC) is a theatre studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles,response articles, and discussion articles (https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_TPNC.html). [NOTE: Issues 1.1 (2024) and 1.2 (2024) are already published. We are currently looking for submissions for issues 2.2 (2025) and beyond.] TPNC operates via rolling submissions, so there is no specific […]
Deadline: February 15, 2025 THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas Call for Articles 2025 Issue Theatre Annual is the oldest theatre periodical continuously published in the United States. It is dedicated to examining theatre and performance of the Americas. We construe “America” broadly to include North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Articles […]
Routledge Companion to LGBTQ+ Theatre and Performance in North America Editors: Bess Rowen & Benjamin Gillespie We invite proposals for this edited volume exploring the intersections of LGBTQ+ performance across North America including the United States, Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. Although there have been several key works written about queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ […]
Deadline: February 15, 2025 THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas Call for Articles 2025 Issue Theatre Annual is the oldest theatre periodical continuously published in the United States. It is dedicated to examining theatre and performance of the Americas. We construe “America” broadly to include North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Articles […]
9-10 October 2025 Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy Funded by Next Generation EU Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life. These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational […]
Submissions sought for a few more essays (or, rather, abstracts, at this stage) for a proposed edited book on Edward Albee to celebrate his centenary celebration. The proposed book has expressed interest from University of Michigan Press’ Theater: Theory/Text/Performance book series. Should you already be working on something on Albee, or you have an idea for an essay, please […]
The Arthur Miller Society at ALA 2025 May 21-24, 2025Boston, MassachusettsProposals due January 10 The American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).The Arthur Miller Society will have two sessions at this conference. For the first panel, […]
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) ConferenceJuly 28 – August 1, 2025, OnlineSubmissions Due December 19 Amplifying ATHE’s call for us to engage with “The Real” in our 2025 Conference, ATDS invites proposals addressing the theme of “The Realness.” We recognize the existential realities that artists, scholars, and educators confront today and seek submissions that explore […]
Proposals due January 31, 2025 Editors: Karen Jean Martinson (Arizona State University) and Dan Smith (Michigan State University) Dramaturgy as a field in theatre practice continues to be codified through published scholarship on both the role of the dramaturg and acts of dramaturgy. A separate application of the term dramaturgy exists in the discipline of […]
April 24 – 26, 2025 University of Missouri Abstracts due: November 15, 2025 Call for Abstracts of Papers and Presentations On Thursday, April 24, through April 26, 2025, the University of Missouri Department of Theatre and Performance in cooperation with the Cambio Center, MU Libraries, and The Bridge, will host a new theatre and drama conference, Cachimbonas!: […]
June 19-31 Cologne, GermanyAbstracts due January 15, 2025 IFTR’s Popular Entertainments Working Group is interested in uncovering and givingvoice to historical forms of popular performance that have largely been overlooked indominant theatre history narratives. The multiple performance styles/genres within thegroup’s field of interest include circus, burlesque, variety, vaudeville, revue, sport asperformance, music in popular entertainments, popular […]
Published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes (TPNC) is a theatre studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles,response articles, and discussion articles (https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_TPNC.html). [NOTE: Issues 1.1 (2024) and 1.2 (2024) are already published. We are currently looking for submissions for issues 2.2 (2025) and beyond.] TPNC operates via rolling submissions, so there is no […]
We are delighted to invite you to join the Opulent October & Noble November Wacky Writing Challenge hosted by the American Theatre and Drama Society — one of the Wacky Writing Week series that you may remember from the past several years. It’s a low-stakes, fun way to tackle your research (or maybe to finish your ASTR paper!). All are welcome! Interested? Read on… […]
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre (JADT) is looking for performance reviewers to write on professional productions or performances of any type in the Americas, broadly defined. We prefer submissions that have a clearly articulated theoretical/critical viewpoint and strongly encourage reviews that center work created by artists from historically marginalized communities. Reviews that have a timely […]
33rd Annual CDE ConferenceKonstanz, Germany 19-22 June 2025 Abstracts Due: 15 September, 2024 The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 33rd Annual Conference (19-22 June 2025). It is organized by the University of Konstanz and will be held as a residential conference at Hotel St. Elisabeth in […]