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The co-hosts talk about Lisa Freeman's book, Antitheatricality and the Body Public, and MOOCs, plus Maaike Bleeker of University of Utrecht joins us to talk about TAPS in Europe.
On TAP Special: Oskar Eustis
Sarah Bay-Cheng talks to Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater, about the state of non-profit theatres, market thinking in theatre and academia, and what stories should be the next to be told on American stages.
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In this episode, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Julia Walker and Glenn Odom's article about Performance Studies and Modernist Studies, the place of applied theatre in TAPS, and 2017-18 season announcements from regional theatres. We also end up talking about the movie Arrival.
Links to some of things we discuss in this edition:
- Julia Walker and Glenn Odom's article in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, "Comparative Modernist Performance Studies: A Not So Modest Proposal."
- Anne Basting's profile at the MacArthur Foundation website.
- The MA program in Applied Theatre at CUNY.
- American Theatre magazine's page listing Regional Theatre season announcements.
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In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey welcome Jennifer Parker-Starbuck of the University of Roehampton in London to talk about TAPS in the UK. We also talk about the future of the NEA during the Trump presidency and David Hare's comments about "director's theatre" from Europe.
Links to some of the things discussed in this edition:
- Harvey Young's essay on arts funding and Republican leadership in Washington.
- Recent New York Times articles on the White House budget document proposing elimination of the NEA, and on arts programs responses.
- Excerpts from a controversial interview with playwright David Hare.
- Duska Radosavljevic's response to Hare.
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In this first edition of 2017, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Branislav Jakovljevic's book, Alienation Effects, the publication TheTheatreTimes.com, and uses of social media in theatre and performance academia.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this edition:
- NYT story on programs flagged by the Obama Administration's initiative against predatory education programs.
- Carl Weber, emeritus at Stanford, passed away.
- Branislav Jakovljevic's book, Alienation Effects.
- The new web publication, www.thetheatretimes.com.
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With special guest Henry Bial of KU, the co-hosts talk about Theatre Studies vs. Performance Studies in 2016, the ramifications of the Presidential Election for the profession, and the statistical tools administrators use to gauge academic output.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this edition:
- University of Chicago launches an interdisciplinary PhD in Theater and Performance Studies.
- Tarell Alvin McCraney is named as the next chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.
- Performance as buzzword, theatrical metaphor, and "macho cult" in a Guardian critique of England's TEF productivity scheme.
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Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey get together to discuss the 2016 job market, Emma Rice's departure from Shakespeare's Globe in London, and the ASTR conference in Minneapolis. This edition was recorded in Minneapolis, just before the 2016 election in the US.
On TAP Special: P Carl
Pannill Camp talks to P Carl of Emerson College and Howlround about gender and casting in academic theatre.
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In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Nicolas Ridout's book, Theatre and Ethics, trigger warnings in performance pedagogy, and issues related to race and casting in college theatre productions.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this edition:
- MacArthur Foundation Awards were granted to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Anne Basting.
- Yale Repertory Theater Celebrated its 50th anniversary.
- Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music drew scholars to Brooklyn, NY.
- Phillip Zarrilli's career at University of Exeter was honored at a symposium.
- Nicolas Ridout's book, Theatre & Ethics.
- Yale Daily News article concerning a recent casting controversy on campus.
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In this edition, the co-hosts discuss dramaturgy on the campaign trail, the Call for the Future section of essays in Theatre Survey, and the classes they are currently teaching in the new term.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this edition:
- Michele Volansky's article on the 2016 campaign in American Theatre magazine
- CFP for the new journal, GPS: Global Performance Studies
- The fourth edition of the new Theatre History Podcast at Howlround
- The September 2016 edition of Theatre Survey with the Call for the Future section
- The National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival meeting in October
- The Spectatorship in the Age of Surveillance symposium at Bard College, September 2016