To be published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes–a new theatre studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles–has decided to start its existence with a (hopefully-blockbuster) double issue in 2021. If you would would like your work to be considered for this inaugural issue, please submit […]
Comparative Drama Conference will meet again in person in Orlando, Florida on October 14-16, 2021. However, the CDC board realizes that it may be difficult for some people to get to Orlando, so we will be offering the opportunity for a virtual reading of one’s paper. (You don’t have to know what your status will […]
Freakery Too: Further Explorations of the Extraordinary Body in PerformanceIn 1996, the publication of the anthology Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson, defined a generation of scholarship on the topic of the performance of disability. It is hard to imagine any major work of disability theory written since that is not in some way […]
SETC Theatre Symposium Volume 30“Theatre and Politics”DATES: April 9-11, 2021LOCATION: A Virtual Convening through ZOOM For the 30th volume of Theatre Symposium, the editors return to a topic first proposed twenty years ago in volume 9 (Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century) but reimaged to include a broader, more comprehensive time frame: Theatre & […]
The Thornton Wilder Society welcomes papers on any aspect of the author’s career for the annual American Literature Association (ALA) conference in Boston on July 7-11, 2021, Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116. We especially welcome papers on gender in any of the plays or novels, or racial identity as they relate to such Wilder […]
Call for Papers: Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing ObjectsOnline symposium, April 9-10, 2021Organized by Matthew Isaac Cohen, Jungmin Song, and John BellSponsored by the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and the Puppets Arts Program of the University of Connecticut Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Marvin Carlson (The Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature […]
LMDA’s journal Review is currently accepting submissions for the 2021 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 […]
THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the AmericasCall for Articles2021 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 may treat work […]
Working Title: Critical Approaches to Arts Administration in the New MillenniumEdited by Winter Phong, Ph.D. and Alicia Jay, Ph.D.Beginning with the Great Recession, a series of economic, natural, and social catastrophes continue to affect the United States. During the past fifteen years, events and movements such as Occupy Wall Street, LGBTQIA+ rights, #MeToo, mass shootings, […]
CFP: “Theatre-Fiction”November 1, 2020Seeking proposals for an edited book of chapters on “theatre-fiction”,i.e. novels and stories about theatre.Theatre has made star appearances in dozens of novels, from J. W.Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship to Mikhail Bulgakov’s BlackSnow to Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed. There are historicaltheatre-novels (John Arden’s Silence Among the Weapons), naturalisttheatre-novels (George Moore’s A Mummer’s Wife), […]
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre Special Issue: Milestones in Black Theatre Co-Edited by the American Theatre and Drama Society, the Black Theatre Association, and the Black Theatre Network Spring 2021 Call for Submissions 2021 marks the centennial of Errol Hill’s birth. A prominent West Indian playwright, performer, and scholar who launched his career in the 1940s, Hill remains […]
UCLA Department of Theater and the Center for Performance Studies2021 Graduate Student Conference:Contact – Performing ProximityKeynote Speakers:Sarah Bay-Cheng (York University)Daphne Brooks (Yale University)GLAM Collective (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums): HeatherIgloliorte (Concordia University), Julie Nagam (The University of Winnipeg),Carla Taunton (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University)Date: Feb. 19-21, 2021From its Latin roots, contact describes […]
Theatre JournalCall for PapersSpecial Issue for September 2021: AI From the formal inception of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with individuals like computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing, AI technologies have often been measured first in their ability to mimic human performance, such as translation, and then to surpass them. For example, in an AI subfield like natural […]
Theatre Journal Call for PapersSpecial Issue for December 2021: Shooting In 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement was born out of despair after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and murdered Trayvon Martin. Since then, the of murder of black people by police and white vigilantes has continued unabated. FBI data shows that […]
The Eugene O’Neill FoundationTravis Bogard Artist in Residence ProgramApplications for 2021 Residencies are due November 15, 2020Create in the serenity and atmosphere that was so instrumental to the writing of Eugene O’Neill . Fellows work at Tao House his home in hills above Danville, CaliforniaApplications and guidelines can be seen at this website.