ASTR State of the Profession Plenary

by Ric Knowles, University of Guelph
I’ve been asked to speak from a Canadian position, so I’ll start, as an epigraph, with a line by that great Canadian Neil Young sung on a recent album in his archetypally Canadian high-pitched whine: “there’s a bailout comin’ but it’s not for me.”
I want to be clear about what [...]

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 [...]