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More than 75 years of excellence in theatre, dance, and performance studies. Published by John Hopkins University Press and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
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Join the team at Theatre Journal! We are seeking two new colleagues, an Online Editor and a Performance Review Editor. Please share widely and consider applying! Don't hesitate to reach out with questions.
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And last but certainly not least, congrats to Donatella Gallella for receiving the Methuen Drama Prize for Best Essay on the Musical from ISSM for her essay “Democracy, ‘Democracy (Reprise),’ and the Asian American Ambivalence of Soft Power" (March 2024).
Hooray for our authors!
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More congratulations go to Shannon Woods, who received the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Dance Studies Association for her essay “The Threat is Now: Choreography, Temporality, and the Active Shooter Drill,” also published in the special issue on Abolition.
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Congrats also to Leticia L. Ridley, who received the Vera Mowry Roberts Award Honorable Mention for “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies,” which appeared in the special issue on Abolition (September 2024).
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Congrats to Maria Di Simone for winning the ATDS Vera Mowry Roberts Award for “Chinese American Identity, Performance, and Immigration Law: Jue Quon Tai in Theatres and at National Borders,” which appeared in the March 2024 issue.
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More prizes for TJ authors! Please read and cite these four wonderful articles!
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Read @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social's "'Honest Work Done by Honest Dogs': Canine Unemployment, Interspecies Rehabilitation, and Disability Performance"

Now available in the new issue of @theatrejournal.bsky.social via @projectmuse.bsky.social

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As an accompaniment to my recent essay on Alice Childress and "Trouble in Mind," I wrote a blog post on Theatre Journal online that discusses some of its inner workings.

In particular, I examine the prevailing narrative about this play in juxtaposition to its (very small!) visual archive.
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For your summer reading . . . TJ's June issue is out! Articles by Patrick McKelvey, Rebecca Chaleff, Shea Hwang, and Kellen Hoxworth speak collectively to the intricacies of minoritarian worldmaking. Print issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55030
Open access content: www.jhuptheatre.org/.../volume-7...
Cover image features Morris Frank and his companion Buddy preparing to cross the street in New York while a small crowd observes, ca 1930s, as part of a publicity campaign of The Seeing Eye, a US organization that systematized efforts to train guide dogs for the blind.
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Theatre Journal seeks submissions for its 2026 special issues on "Institutionality" (edited by incoming editor Ariel Nereson) and "Staying Put" (edited by incoming coeditor Christina Baker). Ariel and Christina welcome your inquiries! www.jhuptheatre.org/theatre-jour...
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Check out the following calls for papers for our 2025 issues on "Magic" (deadline Dec. 1, 2023) and "The Transnational Erotic" (deadline Feb. 1, 2025).
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Megan Lewis has reviewed Transoceanic Blackface in Theatre Journal. She writes: “[Hoxworth’s] degree of detail and excellent footnotes are models of historical performance research.”
Throughout the book, Hoxworth provides an “expansive material archive" with copious case studies and visual reprints as well as data on numbers of performances, length of show runs, and audience demographics that support his thesis of the proliferation and ubiquity of transoceanic blackface (204). His degree of detail and excellent footnotes are models of historical performance research. His prose is dense and theoretical and, as such, may be more suitable for advanced graduate study rather than a generalized undergraduate audience. Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is a deftly researched, thorough, and compelling analysis of a fraught theatrical form. Hoxworth's book offers readers a better grasp of blackface minstrelsy, not just as the "privileged preserve and national shame of US American popular culture," as it has been un-derstood, but as a global phenomenon, central to the "ongoing transnationality of whiteness" in the imperial project (205).

MEGAN LEWIS
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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TJ's March issue is out! Essays by Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, Ivan Bujan, Carla Neuss, and Marlis Schweitzer, plus a special online section on the work of Jill Dolan. Online content: www.jhuptheatre.org/theatre-journal/online-content/issue/volume-77-issue-1-march-2025, full issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/54598
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My review of State of the Arts by Jonas Tinius is out in Theatre Journal: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl.... Tinius offers an example of how theatre can be studied anthropologically.
Project MUSE - <i>State of The Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration</i> by Jonas Tinius (review)
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論文 トルコ独立戦争期の少年劇団における軍国主義とトルコ化(キャーズム・カラベキルの試み)
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay. "Remembering the Army of Robust Children in the Age of the Utopian Turn: Militarism and Turkification in Late Ottoman Youth Theatre." Theatre Journal 77, no. 1, March 2025. otmn
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Project MUSE - Remembering the Army of Robust Children in the Age of the Utopian Turn: Militarism and Turkification in Late Ottoman Youth Theatre
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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!
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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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On TAP 078
Pannill, Jordan, and Leticia discuss Rhaisa Williams' new article about Mamie Till Bradley's NAACP tour and
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TJ's special issue on Care, Carework, and Performance is out! Essays by Rhaisa Williams, Bethany Hughes, Alisha Ibkar, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Sung-Min Kim, and Elizabeth Son. Visit www.jhuptheatre.org/.../volume-7.... for interviews, a manifesto, and more! Entire issue at muse.jhu.edu/issue/54175
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I saw two challenging plays that I couldn't get out of my head and I knew I had to write about them. The resulting article just came out in the latest Theatre Journal:

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Project MUSE - "It Feels Like Being in Jail All Over Again": Staging the Criminalized Liminality of Sex Offenders
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TJ's special issue of “Abolition and Performance” is now out! Edited by Ariel Nereson, it features six powerful essays and a wealth of online content curated by Tarryn Li-Min Chun. Full issue at muse-jhu-edu.dartmouth.idm.oclc.org/issue/53728; online content at www.jhuptheatre.org/theatre-jour....
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Thrilled that my monograph, Latinx Shakespeares: Staging US Intracultural Theater, was reviewed by Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez for @theatrejournal.bsky.social. My book is open-access and free to download. #theatre #theatresky #academicsky #TheatreBSKY
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Project MUSE - <i>Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater</i> by Carla Della Gatta (review)
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NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! Please read and check out my new article in Theatre Journal, whereby I put forth my concept of Black theatrical geographies in conversation with Katherine McKittrick and Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

DM if you don’t have access and would like me to email you a copy!
A screenshot of Leticia Ridley’s article “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies.”
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Check out the special issue of Theatre Journal on Abolition & Performance. My article “Abolitionist Laughter: The Joint Movement to #stopcopcity” examines the use of humor in the June 5 2023 ATL city council meeting as an ecocritical strategy of refusal and repair
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