On TAP Special: Paula Vogel
Sarah Bay-Cheng talks to Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel about Vogel's PhD, theatre critics, and teaching young playwrights.
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In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Jessica Berson's award-winning book, The Naked Result, plus Confederate monument removal, and our favorite TV shows.
Links to some of the things we talk about on this episode:
- Jessica Berson's book, The Naked Result.
- The NYT's feature on Confederate monument removal.
- Interview with Sarah Beetham about Confederate monuments.
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In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey welcome Noe Montez of Tufts University to talk about the quantitative features of the TAPS job market. We also discuss the Aesthetic Perspectives framework published by Americans for the Arts and Heiner Goebbels essay Research or Craftsmanship.
Here are links to some of the things we mention in this edition:
- The "Aesthetic Perspectives" document published by Americans for the Arts.
- Heiner Goebbels book, Aesthetics of Absence: Texts on Theatre, including the essay "Research or Craftsmanship?"
- Noe Montez's recent tweets about the TAPS job market.
- Garfield Minus Garfield.
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Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey respond to listener questions. We share some of our biggest writing influences, opine on peer-review, and offer advice for emerging scholars. Plus, one tweet makes Harvey giggle, and a lucky listener wins an On TAP coffee mug!
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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.