Theory/Text/Performance collects the best of new scholarly work in theater and performance studies. The series has been recognized by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education with an Award for Excellence in Editing, the first award of its kind by the association.
Series Editors
David Krasner, Five Towns College
Jen Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway, University of London
Harvey Young, Boston University
Founding Editor
Enoch Brater, University of Michigan
What happens when the ocean and the ship become a stage
A contemporary history of the usage of yellowface in musical theatre
A framework for understanding audience participation in twenty-first century immersive theater
Explores how French and Algerian dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation and Algerian War
A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater
Chronicles Ito Michio’s career and explores how fantasy sustains a life disrupted by war, racialization, and imperialism
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
Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation
A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance
Dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond
Reveals theatre’s central role in the formation of bourgeois subjectivity
Demonstrates the power of embodied and digital networks in confronting neoliberal sociopolitical regimes in the Americas
Revisits the history of acting pedagogy and performance practice to reveal the influence of industrial culture and philosophy on theater and film
Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theater—the aesthetics of ruins
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures
Explores what brevity can teach us about the powers and limits of theater
Explores how theater in Toronto, the world’s most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup
Traces the deep roots of Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade and the city’s history of blackface masking and other forms of racial impersonation
An unflinching, illuminating look at three U.S. artists and their performances of suffering
Examines the interplay of artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia and reveals their inseparability
