ATDS Award Winners: 2019 Emerging Scholar Award Julia Moriarty of Wayne State University for “Two Sides of the Same Coin: How Mother and Non-Mother Characters Critique and Support Patriarchal Systems in Two Plays.”) Graduate Student Travel Award Shelby Brewster (University of Pittsburgh), who will use the prize to support travel to the Center for Land Use Interpretation located in […]

Please see the ATDS home page for links to the 2018 membership meeting minutes as well as a schedule of co-sponsored panels at this year’s ATHE.

TheTheatreTimes.com Launches Performap.com The award-winning global theatre portal TheTheatreTimes.com launches Performap.com, anInteractive Digital Map of Global Theatre Festivals. With hundreds of festivals browsable and searchable by festival location, type, and date, Performap is the first extensive digital index of its kind in the field. It is built expressly for artists, audiences, critics, scholars, festival organizers, […]

This past April Mark Cosdon directed Urinetown the Musical at Allegheny College, where he teaches courses in theatre history, literature, and criticism.  In May/June, Cosdon led his 10th study/travel course to Italy, an interdisciplinary exploration grounded in Italian language and culture, the Renaissance, and the country’s evolving contemporary landscape. Cosdon spent a week in residence […]