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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.

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Recorded in New Orleans at the meeting of the American Society for Theatre Research, Pannill, Jordan, Miriam, Brian, and Leticia talk about the recent NPR series of reports on the American regional theatre, the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund's Toolkit for college theatre productions, and the ASTR 2022 conference on the theme of Catastrophe.

Here are links to some of the things we talk about on this episode:

• The NPR series, Next Stage

• The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund’s college theatre “cancellation toolkit”

• ASTR 2022, in New Orleans

• Brian’s invaluable newsletter on substack, #theatreclique

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Pannill, Brian, and Jordan discuss The City We Make Together, a new book by Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman about the participatory theatre piece City Council Meeting, Nathan Fielder's show The Rehearsal, and a recent Wired article about Nordic Larp.

Here are links to some of the things we discuss on this episode:

• The City We Make Together, by Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman

• Jason Anthony’s article about Nordic LARP

• Bruce Wilshire’s 1990 article on Paratheatre from TDR

• Simming, by Scott Magelssen

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Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill ring in the new academic year with a special edition of the podcast, and some fond farewells. Recording in person on the campus of York University in Toronto, the original co-hosts discuss Nikki Yeboah’s award-winning article, All the Nation’s a Stage, the Jordan Peele movie Nope, and Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road concert.