Staging American Fiction in France: Adapting Non Dramatic Texts from the US (1960-2025)  5-6 February 2026, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France This two-day symposium is part of the ACTiF research program on “American Contemporary Theater in France” (ANR-23-CE54-011/2023/CE54, ACTiF – American Contemporary Theater in France), coordinated by the Centre for Anglophone Studies (CAS -EA801). The symposium […]

Call for Papers: the Black Theatre Review. Vol. 4 No. 1 “Our stories and achievements had been carried by the wind and buried in the soil. It had been whispered as bedtime stories, spoken from the pulpits on Sunday mornings, and woven throughout our songs and poems of resistance and survival. America did not have […]

Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium 2025  Adaptation and Inspiration: Looking Back, Moving Forward  Friday, May 2, 2025     The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium (PTRS) is seeking abstracts for the 2025 gathering of theatre scholars and practitioners. We invite proposals for panels and roundtables for our in-person conference at Villanova University this May. This year’s theme is “Adaptation: Looking Back, Moving […]

Call for Papers: the Black Theatre Review. Vol. 4 No. 1 “Our stories and achievements had been carried by the wind and buried in the soil. It had been whispered as bedtime stories, spoken from the pulpits on Sunday mornings, and woven throughout our songs and poems of resistance and survival. America did not have […]

Published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes (TPNC) is a theatre studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles,response articles, and discussion articles (https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_TPNC.html). [NOTE: Issues 1.1 (2024) and 1.2 (2024) are already published. We are currently looking for submissions for issues 2.2 (2025) and beyond.] TPNC operates via rolling submissions, so there is no specific […]

Deadline: February 15, 2025 THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas Call for Articles 2025 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 […]

Routledge Companion to LGBTQ+ Theatre and Performance in North America Editors: Bess Rowen & Benjamin Gillespie We invite proposals for this edited volume exploring the intersections of LGBTQ+ performance across North America including the United States, Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. Although there have been several key works written about queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ […]

Deadline: February 15, 2025 THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas Call for Articles 2025 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 […]

9-10 October 2025  Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy  Funded by Next Generation EU  Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of  investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life.  These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational […]

Submissions sought for a few more essays (or, rather, abstracts, at this stage) for a proposed edited book on Edward Albee to celebrate his centenary celebration. The proposed book has expressed interest from University of Michigan Press’ Theater: Theory/Text/Performance book series.  Should you already be working on something on Albee, or you have an idea for an essay, please […]

The Arthur Miller Society at ALA 2025 May 21-24, 2025Boston, MassachusettsProposals due January 10 The American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).The Arthur Miller Society will have two sessions at this conference. For the first panel, […]

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) ConferenceJuly 28 – August 1, 2025, OnlineSubmissions Due December 19 Amplifying ATHE’s call for us to engage with “The Real” in our 2025 Conference, ATDS invites proposals addressing the theme of “The Realness.” We recognize the existential realities that artists, scholars, and educators confront today and seek submissions that explore […]

Proposals due January 31, 2025 Editors: Karen Jean Martinson (Arizona State University) and Dan Smith (Michigan State University) Dramaturgy as a field in theatre practice continues to be codified through published scholarship on both the role of the dramaturg and acts of dramaturgy. A separate application of the term dramaturgy exists in the discipline of […]

April 24 – 26, 2025 University of Missouri Abstracts due: November 15, 2025  Call for Abstracts of Papers and Presentations On Thursday, April 24, through April 26, 2025, the University of Missouri Department of Theatre and Performance in cooperation with the Cambio Center, MU Libraries, and The Bridge, will host a new theatre and drama conference, Cachimbonas!: […]

June 19-31 Cologne, GermanyAbstracts due January 15, 2025 IFTR’s Popular Entertainments Working Group is interested in uncovering and givingvoice to historical forms of popular performance that have largely been overlooked indominant theatre history narratives. The multiple performance styles/genres within thegroup’s field of interest include circus, burlesque, variety, vaudeville, revue, sport asperformance, music in popular entertainments, popular […]