LMDA’s journal Review is currently accepting submissions for the 2022 issue. The mission of the journal is to provide a venue for exploration of dramaturgy, and for ongoing conversation about the work of the dramaturg and the literary manager and their relationship to all aspects of theatre-making. Review publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, along with work in other formats such as […]
Call for Submissions(research articles as well as book and performance reviews) The Black Theatre Review (tBTR) will be accepting submissions for its inaugural publication, Vol. 1 No. 1, to be published in July of 2022. We are pleased to invite submissions on the following theme:CrossroadsWe encourage submissions from all fields that use the lens of Black performance to […]
Call for Papers: Theory and Criticism Focus Group—ATHE 2022 Conference Rehearsing the Possible: Practicing Reparative CreativityDetroit, MI | July 28–July 31, 2022Please send questions to Theory and Criticism Conference Planner: Abby Schroering (abby.schroering@gmail.com)Submission Deadline: Sunday, 23 October 2021The Theory and Criticism Focus Group will accept individual 250-word position paper abstracts for the Tending the Garden […]
CALL FOR PAPERS/SESSION PROPOSALSATHE Annual Conference 2022 Music Theatre/Dance Focus GroupDetroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI Conference Dates: July 28-31 Submission Deadlines: Single Papers/Presentations – November 1st, 2021 Full Panels – December 1st, 2021The Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) invites session proposals for the […]
The 39th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference, April 21-23, 2022CALL FOR PAPERSPapers are invited on the films and plays of William Inge, and/or the works of our 2022 honoree Lynn Nottage, designed for a 20-minute oral presentation at the conference. A wide variety of perspectives and themes are encouraged. Papers selected for presentation […]
AMERICAN THEATRE AND DRAMA SOCIETY (ATDS) SESSIONSASSOCIATION FOR THEATRE IN HIGHER EDUCATION (ATHE) CONFERENCE DETROIT MARRIOT, DETROIT, MIJULY 28 – 31, 2022 ATHE 2022: REHEARSING THE POSSIBLE: PRACTICING REPARATIVE CREATIVITYATHE 2020 and ATHE 2021 showed us that remote engagement offers positive and challenging possibilities for our conference community. The 2022 conference will reconvene in person in Detroit, and […]
Rethinking the Biography of the Actor and the Entertaineressay cluster curated by Beth Holmgren (Duke University)Whereas biography has been characterized as one of the least prescribed and most undertheorized of the genres in the literary canon, the biographies of both serious actors and popular entertainers have long remained formulaic and simplistic in recycling the celebrity […]
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Special Issue: Asian American Dramaturgies Spring 2022 Call for Submissions “Dramaturgical critique deploys research, theory, and scholarship for reparative ends.” – Dorinne Kondo, Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity The American Theatre and Drama Society’s 2022 special issue of the Journal of American Drama […]
The 11th International Conference on Eugene O’Neill Longing and Belonging Suffolk University Boston, Massachusetts July 6-9, 2022As we head into the 20s of the 21 st century, we mark the centennials of key O’Neill plays that introduced his voice to a wider audience. Beyond the Horizon premiered on Broadway in 1920 and ushered in a […]
‘PRESENCE’ – TDR Consortium Special Issue by Yale University Coedited by Kimberly Jannarone, Elise Morrison, and Tavia Nyong’oFor nearly three decades, scholars have debated whether performance is constituted by the mutual presence of live bodies in coterminous time and space. Since its inception, this debate has been influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, queer theory, phenomenology and critical race theory. […]
Thornton Wilder Journal Special Issue: Teaching Wilder Looking for articles about all levels: graduate, undergraduate, high school; and from both literary and theatrical perspectives.The article should be approximately 10-12 pages in length, and need not be a scholarly piece but rather more of a personal essay; the deadline is January 15, 2022. Please email submissions or queries to Jackson R. […]
“Circum-Atlantic Drama and Performance”The Drama and Performance Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Sponsored Session2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC from January 6 to 9, 2022.We welcome proposals on diverse types of drama and performance in the circum-Atlantic world during any period and are especially interested in topics that foreground sites outside of the […]
Special Issue of Performance Matters Edited by Karin Shankar and Julia SteinmetzThe Syllabus is the Thing: Materialities of the Performance Studies Classroom What does a performance studies syllabus instantiate or call into being in the classroom? As an interdiscipline, performance studies has been incorporated as an academic field while still remaining sensationally unsettled in its interventions, methods, and […]
ATHE’s Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group:The Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/DanceDeadline: March 1, 2021The Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) announces its call for papers for the Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/Dance at the 2021 ATHE conference in Austin, TX from August […]
To Be Delivered Online in ZoomThe Eugene O’Neill International SocietyAmerican Literature Association ConferenceBoston: July 7-11, 2021The Eugene O’Neill International Society hopes to have sessions at the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in Boston, July 7-11.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference now will have some sessions done completely or partially remotely online. There will not […]
The Eugene O’Neill International SocietyThe Comparative Drama ConferenceOrlando: October 14-16, 2021The Eugene O’Neill International Society hopes to have sessions at the 44th Annual Comparative Drama Conference (CDC) in Orlando, October 14-16, 2021.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, plans for this conference remain flexible; as of February 2021, it is not yet clear whether the conference will […]