Revenge is Mad Hard:Fat Ham and the Question of Cultural ReclamationSince its digital debut in April of 2021, subsequent Pulitzer win, off-Broadway run, Broadway run, and recent flurry of regional productions, Fat Ham has taken North America by storm. In re-framing the story of Hamlet from within a Black, southern family barbeque, playwright James Ijames has opened the door for […]
the Black Theatre Review (tBTR) is now accepting submissions for our fifth publication, Vol. 2 No. 2, to be published in July 2024. “They didn’t bring the hum; they didn’t bring the leader-call, they didn’t bring the field hollers, because they didn’t know them…. the hum, the holler, the leader-call are women things.” Nikki Giovanni,, Black Women Writers […]
The Journal of Consent-Based Performance is calling for papers for the upcoming special issue “Consent is an Access Issue: Rethinking Disability, Accessibility, and Consent-Based Theatre Practices.” This issue is guest edited by Dr. Catherine (Katya) Vrtis, scholar of disability and theatre, current Accessibility Officer for the Mid-America Theatre Festival, and the Co-Founder and inaugural Chair […]
Call for Papers: Performance, Possession and AutomationDeadline: Wednesday, February 1, 2024 Proposals for articles should be no more than 300 words For a special issue of TDR: The Drama Review, co-editors Rebecca Schneider, Dhanveer Singh Brar and Nicholas Ridout seek submissions which consider performances as social and aesthetic practices that potentially work in opposition to the order […]
CALL FOR PAPERSConference “The Legacy of Robert Wilson”August 5–9, 2024The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Watermill CenterWe are pleased to announce an upcoming conference exploring the work ofrenowned American theatre director and visual artist, Robert Wilson, and itslegacy for contemporary visual and performing arts and future artisticproduction. In celebration of Wilson’s extraordinary career, we […]
ATDS CALL FOR PROPOSALS:American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Sessions at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2024 Conference: Revisioning the StoryAtlanta, Georgia, August 1–4, 2024“Show me what democracy looks like”ATHE’s 2024 call asks us to revise or re-vision in an effort to transform both theatre practice and theatre education. Revising and re-visioning […]
With Volume 1 (both Issues 1 and 2) already scheduled to be published by Penn State University Press starting in 2024, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes is a generalist journal in theatre studies (broadly defined), consisting of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles.The journal operates via rolling submissions, so there is no specific […]
Song, Stage and Screen 2024Call for ParticipationRenewing/Rethinking/RevivingJune 26-29, 2024Hosted by The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsNEW AND IMPROVED DEADLINE: 5 January, 2024Song, Stage and Screen is back!This call for participation heralds Song, Stage and Screen’s first return to an in-person gathering since 2019. Song, Stage and Screen XVII will convene at the […]
ECUMENICA: PERFORMANCE AND RELIGIONScholars and artists are invited to submit essays, artist statements, interviews, book reviews, and performance reviews to Ecumenica, a peer-reviewed journal published by Penn State University Press. As a performance studies journal, we welcome scholarship on all sorts of theatrical performance and performance art and also on the activity of religion, including […]
Performance Philosophy 2024: “After Tragedy” May 16-20th Austin, Texas For its May 2024 biennial conference, Performance Philosophy invites proposals for workshops, papers, and keygroup presentations on the theme “After Tragedy.” As we continue to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, rising white nationalist movements, climate disasters, and authoritarian violence around the world, we ask: what forms of performance and thinking might […]
Call for Papers: “Queer and Trans Readings of the Theatrical Past”A Special Section of Theatre History StudiesVolume 45 (2025)Co-Editors: Les Gray (they/them) and Kristin Leahey (she/her) Elizabeth Freeman writes in Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010) of the epistemology of nonbinary and transgender people in history: “Trans studies has a history problem, albeit one that scholars from all branches […]
the Black Theatre Review (tBTR) is currently accepting submissions for Artistic Scholarship as Practice. This includes works of plays, multimedia, digital performance installations, and digital artistic works in the field and/or the discipline of Black theatre and performance. Our specific focus for this issue is Environmentalism. We are also accepting submissions for reflections in Notes from the […]
The Tennessee Williams Scholars ConferenceFriday, March 22, 2024The Historic New Orleans Collectionand Williams Research CenterNew Orleans, LAFounded in 1995, the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference is an annual one-day meeting held in the historic French Quarter as part of the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. The week-long festival features writing workshops, theater events, literary […]
The editors of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre are now accepting submissions for essays on any topics relating to theatre, drama, and popular entertainments of the Americas for consideration. Please submit completed manuscripts to jadtjournal@gmail.com by December 15, 2023 for consideration in the Fall 2024 issue. Our aim is to promote research on […]
THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas Call for Articles 2024 IssueDeadline: January 15, 2024 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 […]
Performing Arts ResourcesInstruction (2025 issue)This issue of Performing Arts Resources will consider approaches to performing arts library instruction in higher education. Performing arts curricula are often composed of both history/theory courses and practice-based courses. Research libraries often struggle to meet the needs of students in history/theory classes who require access to materials like scripts, recordings of performances, […]