On TAP: A Theatre and Performance Studies Podcast

Pannill talks to Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal and Shane Boyle of Queen Mary University of London about the strikes by academic workers in the United Kingdom.

Pannill, Miriam, and Leticia discuss Patrick Anderson and Patricia Ybarra's article, "Is this Ballroom a Bathhouse?" in the new edition of Theatre Journal, text-generating AI as a performance phenomenon, and a performance of Hamlet done in the video game Grand Theft Auto Online.

Brian and Pannill welcome Madeline Sayet and Bethany Hughes for an episode dedicated to Indigenous Performance. We discuss the notion of sovereignty and its importance to Native Theatre since the 1970s, Stephanie Teves's 2018 article "The Theorist and the Theorized," and Sayet's solo show, Where We Belong.

Recorded in New Orleans at the meeting of the American Society for Theatre Research, Pannill, Jordan, Miriam, Brian, and Leticia talk about the recent NPR series of reports on the American regional theatre, the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund's Toolkit for college theatre productions, and the ASTR 2022 conference on the theme of Catastrophe.

Pannill, Brian, and Jordan discuss The City We Make Together, a new book by Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman about the participatory theatre piece City Council Meeting, Nathan Fielder's show The Rehearsal, and a recent Wired article about Nordic Larp.

Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill ring in the new academic year with a special edition of the podcast, and some fond farewells. Recording in person on the campus of York University in Toronto, the original co-hosts discuss Nikki Yeboah’s award-winning article, All the Nation’s a Stage, the Jordan Peele movie Nope, and Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road concert.

In an unusual "two-hander" edition of the podcast, Pannill and Brian discuss Patrick Anderson's recent TJ article, "Dramaturgies of Policing," the meaning of awards in theatre and more broadly, and the Spring Awakening documentary.

Pannill, Harvey, and Sarah are joined by Molly Flynn of Birkbeck, University of London to talk about Ukrainian theatre artists' responses to the ongoing war with Russia. Plus the co-hosts discuss David Savran's ASTR address about the field later published in Theater in 2001, and the TV series Station Eleven.

Sarah, Jen Pierce, and The Daughters of Lorraine discuss the new film version of Macbeth, Esther Kim Lee's talk at Duke on "cosmetic yellowface," and the Immersive Storytelling Lab at National Theater in London.

Pannill, Kareem, and Miriam talk about Vivian L. Huang's article, "Sparking Joy, Serving Mess" in The Journal of Popular Culture, the state of NYC theatre festivals amidst the Omicron wave, and some recent streaming shows, including Addressless at Rattlestick, and gloria rehearsal at the Baryishnikov Arts Center.

On TAP takes on the metaverse! Sarah, Brian, and special guests Ian Garrett and Elizabeth Hunter evaluate the hype regarding facebook's recent announcement on the metaverse, explore the performance studies implications of experimental immersive social media, and discuss its accessibility and equity dimensions. Plus, our first ever bleeped utterance!

Recorded in-person at ASTR 2021 in San Diego, Pannill, Sarah, Leticia, and Jordan discuss the Journal of Dramatic Criticism special section on uses and abuses of the term performative, the sessions on feminist theatre past and present hosted by Cornell University, and ASTR 2021 itself.

Pannill, Harvey, and Miriam discuss Miriam's research into book publishing in theatre and performance studies, the movement to improve working conditions in theatre, and the New York Times Magazine story, “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?”

And we're back. Sarah, Brian, and Kareem discuss Trevor Boffone’s book, Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok, teaching TAPS in the ongoing pandemic era, and the Netflix series, The Chair.

Pannill, Sarah, and Harvey reunite to talk about Fake Friends' new internet production, This American Wife, and to read and discuss each others' published writing.

Sarah, Miriam, and The Daughters of Lorraine, aka Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley, discuss NFTs, reflections on teaching through the pandemic, and a scientific study of theatre's effects on empathy.

Pannill, Harvey, and Brian talk about post-pandemic future of academic work, welcome Kate Bredeson back to the podcast to talk about the ongoing occupation of theatre buildings in France, and discuss Rahda Blank's film The Forty-Year-Old Version.

Harvey, Jen, and Kareem talk about LaDonna Forsgren's article on The Wiz and Black feminist spectatorship, Ike Holter's audio play, I Hate It Here, and AI applications that replicate the voices of dead vocalists. Plus Pannill drops in to share fun facts about On TAP to mark five years of podcasting.

Pannill welcomes Tracy Davis of Northwestern University and Peter Marx of the University of Cologne to discuss their recent co-edited book, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography.

Sarah, Harvey, and new regular co-hosts Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey (also known as the Daughters of Lorraine) talk about EDI work in theatre and performance studies, Ratatouille the TikTok musical, and Race and Performance After Repetition, the new multi-author volume edited by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, and Shane Vogel.

Pannill and new regular co-hosts Brian Herrera and Miriam Felton-Dansky discuss Lindsay Brandon Hunter's article, "We Are Not Making a Movie," streaming presentations of works by Adrienne Kennedy and Luis Alfaro, and new experimental works available online by Split Britches and Marike Splint.

Sarah (in the lead co-host role!), Pannill, and new regular co-host Jen Pierce talk about the multiple threats to arts, humanities, and TAPS career opportunities in higher education, alt-ac career pathways in the tech sector for theatre and performance students, and the streamed multi-media play, Circle Jerk.

Harvey, Pannill, and Kareem Khubchandani discuss José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown, the current impediments to TAPS research, and Basil Kreimendahl's 2016 essay about cis playwrights and trans characters.

Justine Nakase and Kate Bredeson join the co-hosts to share their perspectives on the protests for Black lives in Portland, Oregon. Plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss the pandemic's effects on performing arts education and research, and share some news about the future of the podcast.

Sarah Bay-Cheng interviews Anthony Sargent, CEO of Toronto's Luminato arts festival, about the challenges for live arts in the present and the future.