Theory and Criticism Focus Group—ATHE 2020 Conference Drive: Combustion ↔ Energy ↔ Resilience ↔ Drive ↔ Resilience ↔ Energy ↔ Combustion Detroit, Michigan July 29-August 2, 2020 Please send questions to Theory and Criticism Conference Planner: Daniel Ciba (danciba@hotmail.com) 1. “Spare Parts” An Interactive Roundtable Event In response to the 2020 ATHE conference theme, “Drive,” […]
“Local Acts: Performing Communities, Performing Americas” The American Theatre and Drama Society invites submissions for its spring 2020 issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. Membership in ATDS is not required for submission of an article, but submissions from members are especially encouraged. The effort to create an economically and environmentally sustainable way […]
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 may treat work in these geographic areas or work from these areas that is presented elsewhere […]
International Susan Glaspell Society 2019Essay Prize, Paper Prize and Translation Prize Announcements The ISGS has established three prizes to be awarded at our business meeting. These prizes celebrate outstanding contributions to the development of Susan Glaspell scholarship. Nominees do not need to be members of the ISGS, and all winners will enjoy one-year free ISGS membership. […]
Immersive theatre on Anglophone and Francophone contemporary stages Friday January 17th, 2020 Sorbonne Université / Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès / RADAC (Recherche sur les Arts Dramatiques Anglophones Contemporains) Immersive theatre appears to be a flourishing trend on the contemporary stage. The events which are labelled as such all share the intention of “[placing] the […]
Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference November 14-17, 2019San Diego, California CALL FOR PAPERS Drama and Society 2: “Theater as reflecting the ‘state-of-the-nation’” Theater is a uniquely effective venue for artists to comment on the affairs of a nation, responding to the temper of the times. Not only does it function as a public forum for debate, […]
O’Neill Beyond the Horizon(s) The 11th International Conference on Eugene O’Neill Suffolk University Boston, Massachusetts June 17 – 20, 2020 At the 100-year anniversary of Eugene O’Neill’s first full-length play—Beyond the Horizon(1920), which garnered his first Pulitzer Prize–and of the first play to break the color line on Broadway—The Emperor Jones (1920)—it seems fitting to […]
Call for Papers Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Special Section on Intimacy Choreography The emergence of intimacy choreography as a recognized field invites theatre scholars into significant reflection. Almost as soon as the term intimacy entered the English lexicon in the 17th century as a way to signal profundity of emotional connection, it also began to […]
Call for Papers: Special Section Theatre History Studies Volume 40 (2021) Co-editors: Jane Barnette and Chrystyna Dail Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances Actual or inferred witch characters appear in myriad cultures spanning theatre and performance history. Examples abound: the witch-demons in Kyogen, the virgins in Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius, Adeola and several witch doctor characters […]
Call for Papers for #mapaca19 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2019 Annual Conference November 7-9, 2019 Pittsburgh, PA — Pittsburgh Marriott City Center Hotel Call for papers: Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Pittsburgh, […]
Signs Special Issue: RAGE Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites submissions for a special issue titled “Rage,” slated for publication in the summer of 2021. Feminists are raging. This special issue will consider our rage as a global, complex phenomenon that mandates interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis. Rage is historical. Rage can be […]
Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium 2019 Friday, May 3 – Saturday, May 4, 2019 Call for Papers The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium (PTRS) is seeking abstracts for papers for our 13th annual gathering of theatre scholars and practitioners. The Villanova Theatre Department together with the American Theatre and Drama Society will host this two-day event that […]
The MLA Drama and Performance Forum invites abstracts for a sponsored session titled “Performing Slavery’s Preinventions.” In the long afterlife of the transatlantic slave trade, drama and performance have offered vital engagements with the material and psychic persistence of slavery’s structures of racial violence. But in what ways was the ground laid in earlier periods […]
ECHOES & REMANENCE OF 1968 IN THE ARTS OF THE UNITED STATES Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France November 15, 2019 Symposium cosponsored by CAS EA 801 (UT2J) and EMMA (Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) Organized by Zachary Baqué, Claude Chastagner, Émeline Jouve This symposium follows a first one held in Toulouse on November 22, 2018, devoted […]
2019 Errol Hill Award Offered by the American Society for Theatre Research. This year the awards will focus on books, rather than essays or articles. Books published from the past two years are eligible for consideration (2017 and 2018). Submissions are due by April 19, 2019. Please note that three copies of the book must be submitted (one for […]
Call for Papers The 13th International Arthur Miller Conference Ashland University | Ashland, Ohio October 18-20, 2019 Conference Topic: Arthur Miller and the Question of Relevance In his remarks at Arthur Miller’s memorial service at the Majestic Theater in New York City in 2005, Tony Kushner noted Miller “demanded that we must be able to […]