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Pannill and Brian discuss Eric Mayer-Garcia's recent article, "Theorizing Performance Archives through the Critic's Labor," Alexis Soloski's novel Here in the Dark, and the 2024 musical film Mean Girls.
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Pannill, Miriam, and Shayoni discuss Rustom Bharucha's recent book, The Second Wave, about cultural responses to the pandemic, speech and protest on campus regarding the war in Israel and Gaza, and the essay “Decomposition Instead of Collapse - Dear Theatre, Be Like Soil.”
Here are links to some of things we discuss on this episode:
Rustom Bharucha’s book, The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture
Shayoni Mitra’s editorial in The Columbia Spectator, “Protest with Care.”
An article about Refaat Alareer, and his poem, “If I Must Die, Let it Be A Tale.”
The essay by Annalisa Dias, “Decomposition Instead of Collapse - Dear Theatre, Be Like Soil” and responses by estrellita beatriz and Jacob Padrón.
A report on the raid on The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, West Bank.
Paul Beinart’s article in Jewish Currents on the antisemitism controversy at Harvard.
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Recorded in Providence, Rhode Island, site of ASTR 2023, Sarah, Harvey and Pannill discuss “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Commodification,” a forthcoming essay by Annie Dorsen and Sam Gill, the current moment in conservative cultural politics and what it means for theatre makers and scholars in the US, and the legacy of Matthew Perry.
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Pannill and Brian welcome Sean Metzger and Laura Edmondson, outgoing and incoming editors of Theatre Journal, to discuss the 75th anniversary of the journal, and the forthcoming special issue commemorating that milestone. We discuss some of the pieces in the anniversary issue, the 1980s as a watershed era for the field, and what we hope the future will bring.
Here are links to some of things we talk about on this episode:
The call for the 75th anniversary edition, with links to the lists of most-cited, “top hits,” and special issues
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, by Premilla Nadasen
The “Interpolations 1” symposium at the University of Toronto
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Sarah returns and we welcome Sydney Skybetter to tell us about his soon-to-be-revealed podcast, Dances with Robots (check that out at www.danceswithrobots.org), and other matters choreorobotic. We also discuss Anna Watkins Fisher's book, The Play in the System, and revisit the 2014 sci-fi film, Ex Machina.
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On this episode, Pannill, Jordan, Leticia, and Miriam talk about Kevin Landis' new book, One Public, about the Oskar Eustis era at The Public Theater, financial difficulties at the Dallas Theater Center, and the recent Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to theatre and performance scholars.
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Pannill and Brian welcome Shayoni Mitra to the roster of On TAP regular co-hosts! We talk about Vaibhav Saria's book, Hijras, Brothers, Lovers, the bans on drag performance in US state legislatures, and the wins for Asian-American performers at the Academy Awards.
On TAP Special: Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal and Shane Boyle
Here are links to some of the things we talk about on this episode:
The University and College Union’s national Fighting Fund, where you can easily make a donation to help support the strike action.
Tanzil Chowdhury’s article for The Guardian explaining his view of the situation.
An article from the BBC, giving an overview of the situation leading to the strikes.
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Pannill, Miriam, and Leticia discuss Patrick Anderson and Patricia Ybarra's article, "Is this Ballroom a Bathhouse?" in the new edition of Theatre Journal, text-generating AI as a performance phenomenon, and a performance of Hamlet done in the video game Grand Theft Auto Online.
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Brian and Pannill welcome Madeline Sayet and Bethany Hughes for an episode dedicated to Indigenous Performance. We discuss the notion of sovereignty and its importance to Native Theatre since the 1970s, Stephanie Teves's 2018 article “The Theorist and the Theorized,” and Sayet's solo show, Where We Belong.