Special Issue of Performance Matters Edited by Karin Shankar and Julia SteinmetzThe Syllabus is the Thing: Materialities of the Performance Studies Classroom What does a performance studies syllabus instantiate or call into being in the classroom? As an interdiscipline, performance studies has been incorporated as an academic field while still remaining sensationally unsettled in its interventions, methods, and […]

ATHE’s Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group:The Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/DanceDeadline: March 1, 2021The Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) announces its call for papers for the Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/Dance at the 2021 ATHE conference in Austin, TX from August […]

To Be Delivered Online in ZoomThe Eugene O’Neill International SocietyAmerican Literature Association ConferenceBoston: July 7-11, 2021The Eugene O’Neill International Society hopes to have sessions at the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in Boston, July 7-11.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference now will have some sessions done completely or partially remotely online. There will not […]

The Eugene O’Neill International SocietyThe Comparative Drama ConferenceOrlando: October 14-16, 2021The Eugene O’Neill International Society hopes to have sessions at the 44th Annual Comparative Drama Conference (CDC) in Orlando, October 14-16, 2021.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, plans for this conference remain flexible; as of February 2021, it is not yet clear whether the conference will […]

2021 Shaw Symposium  The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CA and online via Zoom 16-18 July 2021The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Eighteenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. We welcome proposals that offer a focused analysis of The Devil’s Disciple (the Bernard Shaw play running […]

ATDS and MLA Washington DC 6-9 January 2022Title: “Multilingualism in American Drama”How do multilingual American plays, live performances, masters, or movements in American drama and theatre from any period offer strategies for historicizing national cultures and/or identities? The papers on this panel may also help us to consider the diverse ways – linguistic, performative, and […]

Galvanizing Dance Studies: Building Anti-Racist Praxis, Transformative Connections, and Movement(s) of Radical CareDance Studies Association, October 14-17, 2021 Rutgers University/Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick New JerseyAdanna Jones and Jeff Friedman, program co-chairsJulia M. Ritter, local arrangements chairThe DSA 2021 Program Committee collectively re-imagines this international conference as a vessel that builds, explores, collaborates, performs, and agitates current […]

To be published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes–a new theatre studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles–has decided to start its existence with a (hopefully-blockbuster) double issue in 2021. If you would would like your work to be considered for this inaugural issue, please submit […]

Comparative Drama Conference will meet again in person in Orlando, Florida on October 14-16, 2021. However, the CDC board realizes that it may be difficult for some people to get to Orlando, so we will be offering the opportunity for a virtual reading of one’s paper.  (You don’t have to know what your status will […]

Freakery Too: Further Explorations of the Extraordinary Body in PerformanceIn 1996, the publication of the anthology Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson, defined a generation of scholarship on the topic of the performance of disability. It is hard to imagine any major work of disability theory written since that is not in some way […]

SETC Theatre Symposium Volume 30“Theatre and Politics”DATES: April 9-11, 2021LOCATION: A Virtual Convening through ZOOM  For the 30th volume of Theatre Symposium, the editors return to a topic first proposed twenty years ago in volume 9 (Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century) but reimaged to include a broader, more comprehensive time frame: Theatre & […]

The Thornton Wilder Society welcomes papers on any aspect of the author’s career for the annual American Literature Association (ALA) conference in Boston on July 7-11, 2021, Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116.  We especially welcome papers on gender in any of the plays or novels, or racial identity as they relate to such Wilder […]

Call for Papers: Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing ObjectsOnline symposium, April 9-10, 2021Organized by Matthew Isaac Cohen, Jungmin Song, and John BellSponsored by the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and the Puppets Arts Program of the University of Connecticut Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Marvin Carlson (The Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature […]

LMDA’s journal Review is currently accepting submissions for the 2021 issue. The mission of the journal is to provide a venue for exploration of dramaturgy, and for ongoing conversation about the work of the dramaturg and the literary manager and their relationship to all aspects of theatre-making. Review publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, along with work in […]

THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the AmericasCall for Articles2021 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 may treat work […]

Working Title: Critical Approaches to Arts Administration in the New MillenniumEdited by Winter Phong, Ph.D. and Alicia Jay, Ph.D.Beginning with the Great Recession, a series of economic, natural, and social catastrophes continue to affect the United States. During the past fifteen years, events and movements such as Occupy Wall Street, LGBTQIA+ rights, #MeToo, mass shootings, […]