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 […]

Submissions Due September 30, 2024 Teaching Notes is the section of the American Journal of Arts Management where instructors teaching arts management and related topics in higher education share reflections on assignments they design and courses they teach for the inspiration and learning of fellow teachers.  Recently published pieces have been on topics such as teaching about how to […]

Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 research fellowship program at the Harry Ransom Center. We anticipate awarding up to 60 postdoctoral, doctoral, creative, and independent scholar fellowships in the upcoming cycle for projects which would benefit from research with the extensive collections held at the Ransom Center. Fellowships provide travel and research stipends ranging from one week to two months. […]

Theatre Annual is looking for a few additional book reviewers for the 2024 volume. Please let us know if you are interested in helping out with this service to the journal and the profession! If you would like to review one of the books below, or if you have ideas for other books (or performances, or podcasts) […]

Submissions Due August 30, 2024 Call for papers for the volume on Ecodramaturgies for Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy series, edited by Magda Romanska:  The term “ecodramaturgy,” coined by Theresa May in 2007, implies how the environment and climate change are interrogated and promoted through performance. While connections between storytelling and the natural world go back […]

Publication Development ForumCall for Works-in-Progress fromContingent Faculty Colleagues ZOOM Conference: October 11, 2024 – 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST   Invitation The American Theatre and Drama Society invites you to a Works-in-Progress Publication Development Forum for contingent faculty colleagues.  Specifically designed to support faculty in contingent to positions, this forum invites them to share and develop […]

Cachimbonas!: Celebrating Latina/e Dramatists & Social EngagementCall for Abstracts of Papers and PresentationsOn 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!: Celebrating Latina/e Dramatists & Social Engagement, which […]

States/Stages of Emergency: An ATDS Pre-Conference Tuesday, July 30, 2024 over Zoom Proposals to participate as a panelist due: June 15, 2024 This is an emergency. From neoliberal capitalism and censorship of our stages and our syllabi to physical assaults on our students and legislated attacks on anti-racist programming and queer, trans, and nonbinary people, […]