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 [...]

Download the 2009 ASTR Conference Program

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Letter from organizers regarding economic crisis in Puerto Rico

Dear Colleagues:

You may have been hearing in the news recently about the particularly deep effects of the economic crisis in Puerto Rico (which led to widespread and sudden layoffs, which in turn led to a general walkout on Thursday, October 15) – and wondering how this may affect our time during the conference.
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