Justine Nakase and Kate Bredeson join the co-hosts to share their perspectives on the protests for Black lives in Portland, Oregon. Plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss the pandemic's effects on performing arts education and research, and share some news about the future of the podcast.
Miriam Felton-Dansky joins us to talk about the artistic and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, plus Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about the reactions inside higher education, and revisit Waiting for Guffman (1996), which we all watched last week.
Live at the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces at Brown University. We discuss the impact of coronavirus on arts and higher education both near and long term, the recent issue of TDR dedicated to algorithms and performance, and thoughts on the ways colleges prepare students for arts careers in the 21st century. This edition features 4th chair contributions from Ian Garrett, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Elise Morrison, and Brandon Powers. Many thanks to Sydney Skybetter and the team at CRCI 2020!
Soraya Nadia McDonald of The Undefeated joins the co-hosts to talk about theatre criticism, plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss Stephen Scott-Bottoms' new article on "Modern Water," and the Es Devlin episode of the Netflix show Abstract.
Here are links to some of the things we talk about in this edition:
Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill discuss Cats, Practical cats, Dramatical cats, Pragmatical cats, Fanatical cats, Oratorical cats, Delphic-oracle cats, Skeptical cats, Dispeptical cats, Romantical cats, Pedantical cats, Critical cats, Parasitical cats, Allegorical cats, Metaphorical cats, Statistical cats and Mystical cats, Political cats, Hypocritical cats, Clerical cats, Hysterical cats, Cynical cats, Rabbinical cats.
Here are links to some of the things we talk about on this edition:
Info and registration page for the upcoming CRCI conference at Brown University.
T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
Peter Bradshaw’s review of Cats (2019) in The Guardian.
Josie Campbell’s tweet thread about Starlight Express.
Sarah’s blog post on The Irishman and Cats.
Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Fred Moten's essay on Othello, E. Patrick Johnson's documentary, Making Sweet Tea, and the upside of the field of theatre and performance studies in the twenty-first century.
Here are links to some of the things we discuss on this edition:
Fred Moten’s essay, “Letting go of Othello” in The Paris Review
Making Sweet Tea, the new documentary by E. Patrick Johnson and John L. Jackson
Recorded at ASTR, Sarah, Pannill, and Elizabeth Hunter (subbing in for Harvey) talk about Sharon Marcus's new book The Drama of Celebrity, meritocracy in academia, and ASTR 2019 including the demo of the VESPACE virtual reality eighteenth-century theatre project.
Here are links to some of the things we talk about on this edition:
Sharon Marcus’s The Drama of Celebrity
The forum on Meritocracy in the Chronicle Review
The program for ASTR 2019
VESPACE, a virtual reality project to construct an eighteenth-century Parisian fairground theatre
Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey talk about the decline of movie theatre audiences, theatre etiquette, and Waterwell Theater Company's new project, The Flores Exhibits.
Here are links to some of the things we discuss in this edition:
This summer’s New York Times feature on the future of movies
Endcrawl’s blog piece on movie theatre attendance
Lisa Janiak’s essay on the hand-wringing about audience behavior
Waterwell Theater Company’s new project, The Flores Exhibits
In the first edition of the new academic year, Harvey, Pannill, and the now-Canadian Sarah talk about Rebecca Kastleman's article about Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights in the new Modern Drama, recent perspectives on the job market, and ATHE 2019 in Orlando. Plus Harvey recounts witnessing a protest at a recent production of Little Shop of Horrors.
Links to some of the things we discuss in this edition:
Rebecca Kastleman’s article on Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights in Modern Drama
The new issue of Theatre Topics dedicated to graduate education
The conference program for ATHE 2019
The Anthem: Homunculus podcast/musical on Luminary
Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss the new book, Postdramatic Theatre and Form, Patrick McKelvey's article, A Disabled Actor Prepares, and the uses and abuses of the term performative.
Here are links to some of the things we talk about on this edition:
Postdramatic Theatre and Form, the new book edited by Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf
“A Disabled Actor Prepares,” Patrick McKelvey’s new article in Theatre Journal
Twitter thread about abuses of the term “performative”
Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes condemn “alt-ac” initiatives in the Chronicle
The “Heidi game” video