Reframes China's cultural diplomacy by using the emergence of the China Institute in America and the Chinese Nationalist government
Examines the interrelationships of Black, Latinx, and mestizx people through their literature, film, and performance.
Combining urban experiences and experimental dance to develop metropolitan dance texts
Illuminating the extensive contributions of Dick Higgins to theater
Reveals the deep entanglement of technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China
Examining how Blackness has been historically staged in German theater and how it should be represented today
Explores drama’s powerful capacity to model nuanced political action
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment and other psychological experiments as performance and theater
Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos
How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.
Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business
How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages
Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance
Exploring museum-based choreography as a contemporary art medium
How a 100-year-old play about spiritual possession beyond the grave continues to engage and fascinate
Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop
Essays by leading scholars expand understandings of theatrical realism through East Asian performances across premodern, modern, and contemporary periods
How laughter shapes contemporary Japanese media
A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
How notions of creativity have evolved to serve the goals of neoliberalism—and what we can do about it
The changing politics of reception, and how rebellious spectators are redefining the avant-garde
Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages
Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village