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Editorial Comment Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ariel Nereson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial Comment Ariel Nereson The March 2024 issue of Theatre Journal comes on the heels of the landmark seventy-fifth anniversary issue (December 2023, coedited by Laura Edmondson and Sean Metzger) and is my first issue as coeditor. To say that I sense the weight of the journal’s history as I step into this role is an understatement
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Democracy, "Democracy (Reprise)," and the Asian American Ambivalence of Soft Power Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Donatella Galella
Abstract: In Soft Power (2019), David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori deconstruct and demonstrate the affective power of American musicals by reversing The King and I (1951). Soft Power satirizes democracy, white supremacy, and gun violence with whiteface, meta-propaganda, and a sweeping Broadway-style score. In the torch song “Democracy” and its reprise, the artists articulate Asian American ambivalence
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Performing Sphagnum: Ecological Ethics in Cryptic's Below the Blanket Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Angenette Spalink
Abstract: Below the Blanket (2019), a performance installation at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, staged the enmeshed multispecies relationships present in the Flow Country, the largest blanket bog system in the world. While Below the Blanket represented the Flow Country through various artistic mediums, the physical matter—the sphagnum and peat mosses—that comprises the bog was conspicuously absent
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How to Be Human in Drone Culture: In Search of a Pharmacological Recompense through Performance Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Eirini Nedelkopoulou
Abstract: This article examines how performance represents, reflects on, and reimagines the function of technology in drone culture. From a pharmaco-phenomenological angle, I analyze drone art practices, focusing on how drone performances invite audiences to feel/make their way through a networked reality. I highlight human tension, vulnerability, and precarity in their digital thrownness in conditions
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Torera by Monet Hurst-Mendoza (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Weston Twardowski
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Torera by Monet Hurst-Mendoza Weston Twardowski TORERA. By Monet Hurst-Mendoza. Directed and choreographed by Tatiana Pandiani. Alley Theatre, Houston. May 17, 2023. When Elena María Ramírez (Jacqueline Guillén) and Tanok Cárdenas (Jesse Castellanos) ran onto the stage at the opening of Torera, the Alley Theatre’s world premiere
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The Headlands by Christopher Chen (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Janine Sun Rogers
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Headlands by Christopher Chen Janine Sun Rogers THE HEADLANDS. By Christopher Chen. Directed by Pam MacKinnon. American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco. March 4, 2023. Set between fog-shrouded locales on either end of the Golden Gate Bridge, Christopher Chen’s The Headlands contends with how the precarities of memory
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Miss Saigon by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Jayoon Byeon, Jodie Passey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Miss Saigon by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg Jayoon Byeon and Jodie Passey MISS SAIGON. Book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. Lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. Directed by Robert Hastie and Anthony Lau. Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, UK. August 2, 2023
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Shane by Karen Zacarías (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Robert Hubbard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Shane by Karen Zacarías Robert Hubbard SHANE. By Karen Zacarías. Adapted from the novel by Jack Schaefer. Directed by Blake Robison. Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis. July 29, 2023. Revising beloved classics to adjust for changing cultural mores may inspire antipathy from audience members nostalgically invested in the original
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Fat Ham by James Ijames, and: White Girl in Danger by Michael R. Jackson (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Kevin Byrne
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Fat Ham by James Ijames, and: White Girl in Danger by Michael R. Jackson Kevin Byrne FAT HAM. By James Ijames. Directed by Saheem Ali. American Airlines Theatre, New York. May 13, 2023. WHITE GIRL IN DANGER. Book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Vineyard Theatre, New York. May 13, 2023
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Mahabharata by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Stephen Low
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Mahabharata by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes Stephen Low MAHABHARATA. Written and adapted by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes. Directed by Ravi Jain. Shaw Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. March 26, 2023. The Mahabharata is an ancient Sanskrit epic poem that is rarely performed on contemporary stages. Toronto’s
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The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Carla Neuss
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith Carla Neuss THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN. By Zadie Smith. Directed by Indhu Rubasingham. Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. April 16, 2023. Zadie Smith’s The Wife of Willesden, which premiered in November 2021 at London’s Kiln Theatre, transposes Chaucer’s (in)famous Wife of Bath from The Canterbury
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76th Festival D'avignon (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ljubiša Matić
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: 76th Festival D’avignon Ljubiša Matić 76TH FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON. Palais des Papes and various other venues, Avignon, France. July 7–26, 2022. After the collective trauma that made the live (co-) presence of people in public irrelevant, or even dangerous, the breath of a certain freedom soared afresh along the ramparts of Avignon
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Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ryan McKinney
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber Ryan McKinney EVITA. Book and lyrics by Tim Rice. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Directed by Sammi Cannold. American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts. June 16, 2023. As audience members settled into their seats for the American Repertory Theater’s revival of Evita, a white, shimmering
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Parade by Alfred Uhry (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 I. B. Hopkins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Parade by Alfred Uhry I. B. Hopkins PARADE. Book by Alfred Uhry. Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. Directed by Michael Arden. New York City Center, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York. May 3, 2023. Time moves peculiarly in Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s sobering Parade, which was revived on Broadway in 2023 for
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Kpop by Jason Kim (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Kyungjin Jo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kpop by Jason Kim Kyungjin Jo KPOP. Book by Jason Kim. Music and lyrics by Helen Park and Max Vernon. Directed by Teddy Bergman. Circle in the Square Theatre, New York. November 27, 2022. When KPOP opened in 2017 as an immersive off Broadway production, curious audience members moved from room to room in a two-story building
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Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey by Mojisola Adebayo (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Isabel Stuart
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey by Mojisola Adebayo Isabel Stuart STARS: AN AFROFUTURIST SPACE ODYSSEY. By Mojisola Adebayo. Directed by Gail Babb and S. Ama Wray. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. May 3, 2023. STARS, a play by Mojisola Adebayo, centers around an older Black woman, Mrs, who has spent her life searching
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Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces by Joanne Tompkins (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Sarah Bay-Cheng
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces by Joanne Tompkins Sarah Bay-Cheng VISUALISING LOST THEATRES: VIRTUAL PRAXIS AND THE RECOVERY OF PERFORMANCE SPACES. By Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, and Liyang Xia. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America From The Beginning to Raisin in the Sun by Clifford Mason (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Cheryl Black
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America From The Beginning to Raisin in the Sun by Clifford Mason Cheryl Black MACBETH IN HARLEM: BLACK THEATER IN AMERICA FROM THE BEGINNING TO RAISIN IN THE SUN. By Clifford Mason. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020; pp. 234. As indicated by its subtitle, Clifford Mason’s
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The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy by Juliet Guzzetta (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Stefano Boselli
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy by Juliet Guzzetta Stefano Boselli THE THEATER OF NARRATION: FROM THE PERIPHERIES OF HISTORY TO THE MAIN STAGES OF ITALY. By Juliet Guzzetta. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. 239, 21 illustrations. Despite its minimalist
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Mussolini's Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics by Patricia Gaborik (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Alessandro Clericuzio
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics by Patricia Gaborik Alessandro Clericuzio MUSSOLINI’S THEATRE: FASCIST EXPERIMENTS IN ART AND POLITICS. By Patricia Gaborik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. 312. While much has been written about fascism and cinema, architecture, and literature,
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Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions: Making Theatre Global by Karen Fricker (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Aleksandar Dundjerovic
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Robert Lepage’s Original Stage Productions: Making Theatre Global by Karen Fricker Aleksandar Dundjerovic ROBERT LEPAGE’S ORIGINAL STAGE PRODUCTIONS: MAKING THEATRE GLOBAL. By Karen Fricker. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020; pp. 272. It has been twenty-seven years since Remy Charest’s book of interviews with Robert
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Theatre in Market Economies by Michael McKinnie (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Alex Ferrone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theatre in Market Economies by Michael McKinnie Alex Ferrone THEATRE IN MARKET ECONOMIES. By Michael McKinnie. Theatre and Performance Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. 203. In his lucid and insightful book Theatre in Market Economies, Michael McKinnie pulls no punches, something immediately evident
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Rediscovering Stanislavsky by Maria Shevtsova (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Alisa Ballard Lin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Rediscovering Stanislavsky by Maria Shevtsova Alisa Ballard Lin REDISCOVERING STANISLAVSKY. By Maria Shevtsova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp. 304. English-language writings on the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky have been abundant ever since the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) toured the United States a century
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Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies by Macelle Mahala (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Sandra M. Mayo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies by Macelle Mahala Sandra M. Mayo BLACK THEATER, CITY LIFE: AFRICAN AMERICAN ART INSTITUTIONS AND URBAN CULTURAL ECOLOGIES. By Macelle Mahala. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022; pp. 270. Theatre historian and educator Macelle
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Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Elizabeth A. Osborne
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett Elizabeth A. Osborne RADICAL BLACK THEATRE IN THE NEW DEAL. By Kate Dossett. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020; pp. 338. Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal joins
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Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Takeo Rivera
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang Takeo Rivera Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability. By Vivian L. Huang. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022; pp. 240. From the foundations laid by scholars like Josephine Lee, Karen Shimakawa, Esther Kim Lee, Joshua
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Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama by Daisy Black (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Christopher Swift
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama by Daisy Black Christopher Swift Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism And Temporality In Medieval Biblical Drama. By Daisy Black. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020; pp. 248. On the subject of late medieval English plays, Daisy Black’s Play
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At The Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators by Jean Ma (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Xueli Wang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: At The Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators by Jean Ma Xueli Wang AT THE EDGES OF SLEEP: MOVING IMAGES AND SOMNOLENT SPECTATORS. By Jean Ma. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022; pp. 209. Watching a film together is a ritual of intimacy, especially if we fall asleep. In her book At the Edges of Sleep:
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Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Prateek
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions Prateek (bio) This essay is meant to serve as a compendium to my documentary, Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions, which can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJ3Mnea0MU. The film highlights the diversity of the folk performance tradition of Ramman
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Editorial Comment: Informal Archives, Remediations, and Disciplinary Desires Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Laura Edmondson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial Comment: Informal Archives, Remediations, and Disciplinary Desires Laura Edmondson The 75th anniversary issue of Theatre Journal is replete with pleasure, praise, critique, and desire. The journal’s invitation to think through the past, present, and future of the journal as articulated in the Call for Papers generated a robust
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Theatre and Capital Once Again: An Essay on an Informal Archive Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Loren Kruger
Abstract: This essay reviews Theatre Journal articles that examine the intersections of theatre and capital, to highlight the challenge of analyzing neoliberal transformations of global and glocal economies, in particular, the trend to financial speculation to the detriment of investment in public resources, and the impact on theatre and performance. Commentators in the “global” North can better understand
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"Moving Through and Beyond": Asian American Theatre and Performance Studies Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Josephine Lee
Abstract: For decades, Theatre Journal has deeply engaged with different aspects of Asian American theatre and performance. This essay surveys a range of Theatre Journal articles published from the 1990s in order to map out this distinctive area of theatre and performance studies. Key articles by James Moy, Karen Shimakawa, and Daphne Lei grapple with the legacy of racial stereotypes and the aesthetics
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A Set of Questions for a Field in Motion: Susan Leigh Foster's "Choreographies of Protest" and Dance Studies in Theatre Journal Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alison Bory, Ariel Nereson
Abstract: In her landmark essay “Choreographies of Protest,” Susan Leigh Foster articulated the central concerns of the (at the time) developing field of dance studies. Foster’s following analysis, embedded in her argument about the compositional elements of social action, advanced core dance studies methodologies. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Theatre Journal, this essay revisits “Choreographies
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The Digital Turn: Research and Publishing in Theatre Journal Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Joanne Tompkins
Abstract: For the seventy-fifth anniversary special issue of Theatre Journal, it is appropriate to look back to a transition moment in the journal’s history, even if that moment is not very far in the journal’s past. This essay outlines the history behind the establishment of Theatre Journal’s online platform which was launched in 2016. It explores the ways in which Theatre Journal is prepared for
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In Praise of Performance Reviews Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Abstract: For decades, Theatre Journal has served as an important venue for documenting what made past theatrical productions or performances compelling and significant. As the journal commemorates its achievements over its first seventy-five volumes, this essay reflects on the vital contributions of the performance review section by considering its enduring impact on the field. In addition to tracing
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Passing Theatre Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 W. B. Worthen
Abstract: As a technology, theatre both absorbs and represents the technologies it deploys, and so is defined by the multiple temporalities of its instruments. The signifying embodiments, signifying materialities, and signifying narratives constitutive of theatre as rhetoric and practice articulate, depend on, and are altered by the changing emergence of a conceptual “human” (or the dispersion of a
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Catastrophe Practices and the Ontological Gambit: Nicholas Mosley's Plays for Not Acting Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Andrew Sofer
Abstract: This article explores three experimental closet dramas by British writer Nicholas Mosley, part of the novel Catastrophe Practice (1979), which deserve wider recognition in the context of theatre studies’ current focus on catastrophe and futurity. Mosley’s enigmatic “Plays for Not Acting” promote a leap in consciousness, fostering fresh mental patterns to invigorate humanity. This evolutionary
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Revisiting (and Revising) West Side Story's Parahistories Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Brian Eugenio Herrera
Abstract: This essay returns to the author’s 2012 Theatre Journal article, “Compiling West Side Story’s Parahistories, 1949–2009,” to reassess the utility of “parahistory” as a critical or historiographic device to evince how “revisals” of canonical theatrical works might chart, illuminate, and document changes in the historical conditions of creative possibility. The essay then considers three notable
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"Hold on to That Feeling": Disciplinary Formations and Asian B-Sides Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Broderick Chow
Abstract: This essay is a personal and self-reflective account of how disciplinary and sub-disciplinary formations operate within the field of theatre and performance studies materially, politically, and economically. Reflecting on the five years since the publication of the author’s Theatre Journal article, “Feeling in Counterpoint” (2018), the article addresses how disciplinary formations work to
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On Inclusion and Resurgence: The State of North American Indigenous Theatre and Performance Scholarship Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Bethany Hughes
Abstract: This article follows the structure of a pop song—verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus—to put into relationship scholarship on North American Indigenous theatre and performance, the current state of academia, the politics of Indigeneity, and critiques of recognition and inclusion from Indigenous Studies. Historicizing Indigenous theatre scholarship and production alongside Peter Morin
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Seeking Critical Frameworks for Global Majority Theatre Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Anita Gonzalez
Abstract: The essay advocates for expanding theater studies publications to more effectively engage with global majority epistemologies as core methodologies for analyzing theatrical phenomena. Academic theatre classes often incorporate performance studies paradigms, but most theater programs remain centered around practice-based exercises for acting, directing, designing, and producing Eurocentric
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Power and Theory: Structural Racism and Zones of Sanctioned Ignorance Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Dorinne Kondo
Abstract: Through a case study of the creative process on the thirtieth anniversary revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 at the Mark Taper Forum in 2023, this essay argues for centering theories of power in theatre practice as well as scholarship. The limits of mainstream US theatre models manifested in the workings of structural racism and what Gayatri Spivak calls “zones of
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Nonhuman Futures Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Abstract: As a contribution to Theatre Journal’s 75th anniversary issue, this article poses questions and reflections about the inclusion of the more-than-human in theatre and performance studies. Surveying shifts in the field across the past few decades, the essay engages with the complex valences of the terms “human,” “nonhuman,” and “animal” to argue for greater intersectional, interdisciplinary
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Afterword: Performance Studies Reorient Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sean Metzger
Abstract: Drawing on the print contributions to the seventy-fifth anniversary issue of Theatre Journal, this essay argues for a performance studies reorient. Rather than stabilize the field, this gambit attempts to encourage continual disciplinary reinvention that would expand the parameters of critical concern as theatre and performance studies scholars attend to widening geographies, new modes of
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The Burnt City by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jonathan Chambers
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Burnt City by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle Jonathan Chambers THE BURNT CITY. Directed by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle. Punchdrunk, One Cartridge Place, Woolwich, London. March 8, 2023. Over the course of the last twenty years, Punch-drunk has proven itself a producer of immersive theatre par excellence. Under the direction
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1776 (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jennifer A. Low
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: 1776 Jennifer A. Low 1776. Book by Peter Stone. Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. Directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre, New York. December 23, 2022. A row of shoes on the lip of an empty stage was all there was for spectators to look at while waiting for
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Some Like It Hot (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Emily G. Furlich
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Some Like It Hot Emily G. Furlich SOME LIKE IT HOT. Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin. Music by Marc Shaiman. Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman. Directed by Casey Nicholaw. Shubert Theatre, New York. January 19, 2023. Following Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire, Some Like It Hot is the third musical adapted from a man-in-a-dress
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The Porch on Windy Hill (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Heather Grimm
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Porch on Windy Hill Heather Grimm THE PORCH ON WINDY HILL. Written and directed by Sherry Lutken. Northlight Theatre, Skokie, Illinois. May 5, 2023. In spring 2023, Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Illinois produced The Porch On Windy Hill: a new play with old music, written by director Sherry Lutken in collaboration with
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New-Illusion (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kyueun Kim
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: New-Illusion Kyueun Kim NEW-ILLUSION. Written and directed by Okada Toshiki (chelfitsch). Video directed by Yamada Shimpei. Singapore International Festival of Arts, SOTA Studio Theatre, Singapore. June 3–4, 2023. The lonely stage had an electric bass and an amplifier to one side, but otherwise, it was empty. Woman (Shiibashi
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Metamorphosis of a Living Room (Ribingu Rūmu Metamoruflshizu) (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Beri Juraic
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Metamorphosis of a Living Room (Ribingu Rūmu Metamoruflshizu) Beri Juraic METAMORPHOSIS OF A LIVING ROOM (RIBINGU RŪMU METAMORUFLSHIZU). By chelfitsch and Dai Fujikura with Klangforum Wien. Directed by Okada Toshiki. Holland Festival, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam. June 8, 2023. Renowned director and playwright Okada Toshiki
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Prague Quadrennial (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alicia Corts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Prague Quadrennial Alicia Corts PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL. Multiple venues, Prague. June 8–18, 2023. While the Prague Quadrennial has been billed as a festival of design since its first iteration in 1968, part of its charm lies in how performances are integrated into the festival. The 2023 edition of the PQ—centered around the theme
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Kate (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Daniel Sack
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kate Daniel Sack KATE. By Kate Berlant. Directed by Bo Burnham. Connelly Theater, New York. September 29, 2022. If a tear is, as William Archer wrote in his 1888 treatise against Diderot, the “external, visible, sensible fact” of the “most important emotion” for an actor, then one can understand how an actor’s failure to produce
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Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin by Brandon Woolf (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 James R. Ball III
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin by Brandon Woolf James R. Ball III INSTITUTIONAL THEATRICS: PERFORMING ARTS POLICY IN POST-WALL BERLIN. By Brandon Woolf. Performance Works. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. 280. Brandon Woolf’s Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts
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Dream Projects in Theatre, Novels and Films: The Works of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet, and Federico Fellini by Yehuda Moraly (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Clare Finburgh Delijani
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dream Projects in Theatre, Novels and Films: The Works of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet, and Federico Fellini by Yehuda Moraly Clare Finburgh Delijani DREAM PROJECTS IN THEATRE, NOVELS AND FILMS: THE WORKS OF PAUL CLAUDEL, JEAN GENET, AND FEDERICO FELLINI. By Yehuda Moraly, translated by Melanie Florence. Brighton, Chicago, Toronto:
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The Lines Between The Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment by Bess Rowen (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tyler Graham
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Lines Between The Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment by Bess Rowen Tyler Graham THE LINES BETWEEN THE LINES: HOW STAGE DIRECTIONS AFFECT EMBODIMENT. Bess Rowen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp 248. Samuel Beckett’s 35-second Breath makes it easy to see how stage directions can be seen as constraints
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To Be Nsala's Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze by Chérie N. Rivers (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Rachel Kabukala
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: To Be Nsala’s Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze by Chérie N. Rivers Rachel Kabukala TO BE NSALA’S DAUGHTER: DECOMPOSING THE COLONIAL GAZE. Chérie N. Rivers. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023; pp. 128. To Be Nsala’s Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze is the second book from interdisciplinary scholar Chérie N. Rivers
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Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetic of Theater by Joseph Cermatori (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 David Krasner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetic of Theater by Joseph Cermatori David Krasner BAROQUE MODERNITY: AN AESTHETIC OF THEATER. By Joseph Cermatori. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2021; 298 pp. In Thornton Wilder’s inaugural 1938 production of Our Town, director Jed Harris staged a moment in the play where over a dozen
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Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks by Catherine E. Walsh (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks by Catherine E. Walsh Maryam Ivette Parhizkar RISING UP, LIVING ON: RE-EXISTENCES, SOWINGS, AND DECOLONIAL CRACKS. By Catherine E. Walsh. On Decoloniality series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023; pp. 334. Catherine Walsh’s richly braided contribution to
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Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew by Jeremy Dauber (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Brynn W. Shiovitz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew by Jeremy Dauber Brynn W. Shiovitz MEL BROOKS: DISOBEDIENT JEW. By Jeremy Dauber. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023; pp. 201. It seems fitting that a biography of Mel Brooks would be published the same week that the comedian auteur released History of the World, Part II on Hulu, a sequel
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Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jennifer Tyburczy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda Jennifer Tyburczy DISAPPEARING ROOMS: THE HIDDEN THEATERS OF IMMIGRATION LAW. By Michelle Castañeda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023; pp. 200. Michelle Castañeda’s book Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law is a tour