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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · 14d

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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080 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

We welcome special guests Jacob Gallagher-Ross of University of Toronton and Caden Manson of Big Art Group to talk about "interface theater," an emerging genre of works that examine the way contempora...

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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · Apr 25

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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'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour

They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Apr 4

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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On TAP Special: Jill Dolan — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

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 theater and performance studies schol...

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Apr 4

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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On TAP Special: Jill Dolan — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

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 theater and performance studies schol...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Mar 31

The collapse of the NEH would be catastrophic. Also stopping payments would be illegal

Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · Mar 31

Just heard from another NEH higher up that it is true, and the situation is even worse than the rumor above.

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Mar 24

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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079 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

Recorded live at the María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium at Princeton University's Lewis Arts Complex. Brian and Pannill welcome Anne García-Romero to talk about María Irene Fornés in Context, a ne...

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Mar 19

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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Live Recording of <em>OnTAP: A Theater & Performance Studies Podcast</em>: Episode 079

OnTAP: A Theater & Performance Studies Podcast records episode 079 live at Wallace Theater, Princeton University, on 3/22/25.

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Chris Grobe @cgrobe.bsky.social · Mar 18

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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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Mar 16

"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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Judith Butler · This Is Wrong

We need a better understanding of the fears exploited by authoritarians: who is this ‘migrant’, so dangerous they...

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities Leaves at Trump’s ‘Direction’

Shelly C. Lowe, a scholar of higher education and the first Native American to lead the agency, was appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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Theatre Journal @theatrejournal.bsky.social · Mar 11

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!

On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Feb 25

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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Pannill, Jordan, and Leticia discuss Rhaisa Williams' new article about Mamie Till Bradley's NAACP tour and

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ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 7

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.

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Mar 6

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...

‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump’s Takeover

“We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Feb 25

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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Pannill, Jordan, and Leticia discuss Rhaisa Williams' new article about Mamie Till Bradley's NAACP tour and

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Feb 18

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/a...

Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions

A letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or “gender ideology.”

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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · Feb 16

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.

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Feb 15

it seems one of the stated purposes of capping overhead on NIH grants at 15% by those who champion the cap is to starve PhD programs in the humanities

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screenshot from a New York Times article that quotes Jay Greene, senior research fellow at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, as saying of research overhead: "That's how you get things like the ability of administrators to use larger overhead pools of money to build out D.E.I. bureaucracies, or to fund Ph.D. programs in the humanities"

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Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Feb 13

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.”

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · Feb 11

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

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.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · Feb 3

Thanks to colleague @visualizingbroadway.com for this op-ed:

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Harvard Must Choose Veritas Over Survival | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

We may be able to justify, in the long run, the compromises we will make to help Harvard survive the difficult years ahead. But the University must defend truth as long as it can, and do so with forti...

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Jan 30

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/...

077 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

A special edition of the podcast on Dance Data and Dramaturgy. Pannill, Brian, and Shayoni welcome Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit to talk about their data visualizations that are part of the Edges of A...

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Jan 30

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/...

077 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

A special edition of the podcast on Dance Data and Dramaturgy. Pannill, Brian, and Shayoni welcome Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit to talk about their data visualizations that are part of the Edges of A...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · Jan 13

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.)

Richard Foreman Meant It

A colleague remembers the playwright/director/auteur/founder of NYC’s Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, who died on Jan. 4 at the age of 87.

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Joseph Cermatori @cermatori.bsky.social · Jan 7

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

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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · Dec 23

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.

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Dec 19

Episode 076 is here! Pannill, Jordan, and Shayoni discuss Joshua Chambers-Letson's essay on the "studies protocols" of performance studies, performing arts in carceral institutions, and 11Reflections, a devised piece on Arab-American identity in post 9/11 America.

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076 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

Pannill, Jordan, and Shayoni discuss Joshua Chambers-Letson's recent essay on the "studies protocols" of performance studies, performing arts in carceral institutions, and 11Reflections: San Francisco...

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