one can trust any theatre critic who knows the"floor is the most important part" rule of set design, though I recall my college instructor's addendum: "unless you put a ceiling in"
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Episode 083 features On TAP emeritae Sarah Bay-Cheng and Kareem Khubchandani joining Pannill to discuss Annie Dorsen's article about generative AI as theater, Chris Grobe's new article about "botface," and "looksmaxxing." Can you handle it? Download and see!
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On a special episode of On TAP, we welcome Branislav Jakovljevic of Stanford University and Kimberly Jannarone of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to talk about the points of contact between their two new books. Enjoy!
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On a special episode of On TAP, we welcome Branislav Jakovljevic of Stanford University and Kimberly Jannarone of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to talk about the points of contact between their two new books. Enjoy!
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Episode 082 is here! Pannill, Miriam, and Harvey discuss Carla Neuss's Theatre Journal article on gender reveals, James Bundy's retirement from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and the PBS stream of the free production of Twelfth Night in Central Park. Enjoy!
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Episode 080 is here! We welcome Jacob Gallagher-Ross of University of Toronto and Caden Manson of Big Art Group to talk about "interface theatre." Shayoni, Miriam, and Pannill then take stock of the political attacks on higher education in recent months.
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WHOA-- in the last hours of this years legislative session, Indiana Governor & state legislature stripped the IU Faculty Senate of governing power 🧪
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Pannill and Harvey welcome Jill Dolan, Annan Professor of English and Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, to talk about the faculty-to-administration trajectory, and the challenges of the current political moment.
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Pannill and Harvey welcome Jill Dolan, Annan Professor of English and Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, to talk about the faculty-to-administration trajectory, and the challenges of the current political moment.
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The collapse of the NEH would be catastrophic. Also stopping payments would be illegal
Ep. 079 is here, recorded live at the Fornés Institute Symposium at Princeton! We hear from Brian and Anne García-Romero about their new book, Fornés in Context, Jacqueline Flores about the Latinx Theatre Commons, and Gwendolyn Alker about Fornés's biography.
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Our next episode will be recorded live at Princeton University's Lewis Arts Complex, as part of the Fornés Institute's 2025 Symposium. Come see us live this Saturday!
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The necessary antidote is this excellent op-ed by theater scholar (and dean of the arts) Harvey Young.
As he points out, the humanities are imperiled — on purpose — when the most expensive part of universities loses its funding.
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"The problem in [sex] discrimination is not what sex you are, but how your sex is perceived and then treated. It is simply wrong if one is treated unfairly on the basis of a prejudicial perception of sex" - Judith Butler 🔥
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Delighted to see Rhaisa Williams's recent TJ essay, "Grief Capital, Grief Activism: The Brief Life of Mamie Till Bradley's NAACP Tours," already attracting attention!
BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology."
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
On episode 078, we talk about Rhaisa Williams' essay on Mamie Till Bradley and "grief capital," the Trump administration's attempts to reshape federal arts funding, and the documentary about Taylor Mac's 24-decade History of Popular Music...
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All of us in universities need to see ourselves not as siloed disciplines, but as professionals fully united by a single purpose: knowledge creation to make the world a better place for all.
The artistic purging begins at the Kennedy Center. This from Michael Kooman, one of the creators of the Helen Hayes Award nominated children’s musical “Finn.”
Screenshot of grant guidelines with highlighted funding restrictions that include promotion of gender ideology, promotion of discriminatory equity ideology, promotion of dei or deia activities or initiatives, and environmental justice initiatives or activities.
NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
On Episode 077, Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit tell us about the data visualizations in the Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and Katherine Profeta tells us about her work with Ralph Lemon, the subject of a major exhibition at MOMA/PS1. www.ontappod.com/home/2025/1/...
On Episode 077, Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit tell us about the data visualizations in the Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and Katherine Profeta tells us about her work with Ralph Lemon, the subject of a major exhibition at MOMA/PS1. www.ontappod.com/home/2025/1/...
Target Margin director David Herskovits remembers his colleague Richard Foreman's silence and elisions as much as the things he did say, writing that the late auteur worked both intellectually and carnally, both instinctually and critically. (And don't miss the story about María Irene Fornés.)
RIP Richard Foreman (1937–2025), American #avant-garde playwright and #theater director extraordinaire.
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📸: Joseph Moran/Brooklyn Rail.
#newyorktheater #downtown #contemporary #performance #postdramatic #richardforeman #RIP
Cambridge authors, are you signing the AI license agreement or not? The publisher doesn't make a persuasive case for why authors should want to opt in.
