Texas A&M University – New MA in Performance Studies

The Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University announces a new Master of Arts degree in Performance Studies. This interdisciplinary program emphasizes the ethnographic study of vernacular culture. The Department of Performance Studies has strengths in Africana studies, dance and ritual studies, ethnomusicology, folklore, performance ethnography, popular music studies, religious studies, theatre and media [...]

CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Spring 2010

The Publications Committee of the American Theatre and Drama Society invites submissions for the Spring 2010 issue of The Journal of American Drama and Theatre which it is guest editing.  You do not need to be a member of the Society to submit an article, but submissions from the membership are particularly encouraged.  (For more [...]

Updated list of Theatre and Dance Doctoral Ph.D. Programs

DOCTORAL PROGRAMS Below are links to English-language doctoral programs in theatre, dance, performance studies, and related fields: UNITED STATES: * Arizona State University Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance in the Americas * Arizona State University Ph.D. in Theatre for Youth * Bowling Green State University Ph.D. in Theatre * Brown University Ph.D. in Theatre & [...]

Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Theatre and Performance Studies

ASTR Report Conference on Doctoral Program in Theatre and Performance Studies September 18-19, 2009 – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Faculty representing nearly 40 of the Ph.D. programs in Theatre and Performance Studies from the U.S. and Canada gathered for a landmark meeting at UIUC on the state of doctoral training. The conference was supported [...]

2nd Annual ASTR Silent Auction

Dear ASTR conference attendees
Welcome to our digital ‘preview’ of items open for bidding in the 2nd Annual ASTR Silent Auction. We are excited about the range of offerings, including signed books by top scholars in our field, theatre tickets, posters, rare playbills, and original artwork. Contributions from members of ASTR, publishers, and  theatre companies have been outstanding [...]

Special Penary Session: Between Nation and Desti-Nation: Locating Puerto Rican Theatre

Five Stages of Early (pre-1950) Puerto Rican Theatre

Lowell Fiet, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras

Theatre in Puerto Rico reflects social tendencies that revolve around the syncretism apparent in all Caribbean cultures, with the creative impulses of inclusion and innovation, on the one hand, and the exclusion, rigidity, and violence of authoritarianism, on the [...]

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