On TAP: A Theatre and Performance Studies Podcast

Miriam Felton-Dansky joins us to talk about the artistic and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, plus Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about the reactions inside higher education, and revisit Waiting for Guffman (1996), which we all watched last week.

Live at the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces at Brown University. We discuss the impact of coronavirus on arts and higher education both near and long term, the recent issue of TDR dedicated to algorithms and performance, and thoughts on the ways colleges prepare students for arts careers in the 21st century. This edition features 4th chair contributions from Ian Garrett, Ashley...

Soraya Nadia McDonald of The Undefeated joins the co-hosts to talk about theatre criticism, plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss Stephen Scott-Bottoms' new article on "Modern Water," and the Es Devlin episode of the Netflix show Abstract.

Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill discuss Cats, Practical cats, Dramatical cats Pragmatical cats, Fanatical cats Oratorical cats, Delphic-oracle cats Skeptical cats, Dispeptical cats Romantical cats, Pedantical cats  Critical cats, Parasitical cats Allegorical cats, Metaphorical cats Statistical cats and Mystical cats Political cats, Hypocritical cats Clerical cats, Hysterical cats Cynical cats, Rabbinic...

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Fred Moten's essay on Othello, E. Patrick Johnson's documentary, Making Sweet Tea, and the upside of the field of theatre and performance studies in the twenty-first century.

Recorded at ASTR, Sarah, Pannill, and Elizabeth Hunter (subbing in for Harvey) talk about Sharon Marcus's new book The Drama of Celebrity, meritocracy in academia, and ASTR 2019 including the demo of the VESPACE virtual reality eighteenth-century theatre project.

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey talk about the decline of movie theatre audiences, theatre etiquette, and Waterwell Theater Company's new project, The Flores Exhibits.

In the first edition of the new academic year, Harvey, Pannill, and the now-Canadian Sarah talk about Rebecca Kastleman's article about Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights in the new Modern Drama, recent perspectives on the job market, and ATHE 2019 in Orlando. Plus Harvey recounts witnessing a protest at a recent production of Little Shop of Horrors.

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss the new book, Postdramatic Theatre and Form, Patrick McKelvey's article, A Disabled Actor Prepares, and the uses and abuses of the term performative.

In this edition Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about slavery in contemporary plays by Suzan-Lori Parks and Jeremy O. Harris, the recent essay in the Chronicle about academic books that won't die, and Big Dance Theater's 2016 piece Short Form. Plus Sarah explains Heidi to Harvey and Pannill.

Live from the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces at Brown University, Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about Simone Browne's book Dark Matters, John Fletcher's article on deepfake videos, and the Netflix interactive film Bandersnatch. The co-hosts are joined in the fourth chair by conference participants including Nick Porcino of Facebook Reality Labs and Kamal Sinclair of the Sund...

In the first edition of 2019, Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss Michelle Carriger's article on Gothic Lolita fashion communities, Fortnite, the floss, and choreographic intellectual property, and the state of the market for paper editions of plays.

This edition of On TAP is dedicated to ASTR 2018. Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey talk about what led up to the decision to replace the conference with a scaled-back forum in San Diego, and we host a virtual awards ceremony to honor the recipients of ASTR's annual awards. We also share our drafts.

In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Bess Rowen's article about affective stage directions in the new Theatre Journal, Noe Montez's recent report on job market statistics, and the prospect of a digital model for a major conference in our field. We also talk about the ASTR 2018 conference jeopardy.

The co-hosts discuss the virtues and drawbacks of peer review, the NTLive streaming presentation of Julie, directed by Carrie Cracknell, and the ethics of training undergraduate students for the arts in today's job market.

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Amelia Jones' article on the conceptual body in the new TDR, the first part of the Goodman Theatre's stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's 2666, and advice for graduate students starting this fall.

From ATHE in Boston, our first live recording in front of an audience! Sarah and Pannill are joined by guest co-host Kareem Khubchandani to talk about Patricia Ybarra's book, Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism, and the ATHE 2018 conference itself. Plus, Harvey joins in as we share stories of our professional failures, and of course, our drafts. Note: this recording ends abruptly before t...

In this end-of-year edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey talk about the Black Performance and Reproduction section in the new TDR, apps for theatre audiences, and NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.

Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about Derek Miller's 2016 article, Average Broadway, Jesse Green's controversial Brief History of Gay Theater essay in the New York Times Style Mag, and TAPS gateway classes.

Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill talk about the 2018 Olympics with Walter Byongsok Chon, plus Adrienne Kennedy's new play, and notable retirements in theatre and performance studies.

Harvey is back, and the co-hosts talk about patriarchy in theatre departments, the Contemporary Performance network, and Sarah Wilbur's article about the NEA in the latest edition of TDR.

Paige McGinley joins Sarah and Pannill for a special Holiday Season edition of On TAP. We talk about conservative theatre, Kate Elswit's book Theatre & Dance, and Okwui Okpokwasili's performance piece Bronx Gothic, which we watched via ontheboards.tv

In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss the status of the Indiana University PhD program in theatre and drama, video games and theatre and performance studies, and ASTR 2017 in Atlanta.

From Chicago! Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill discuss Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Theatre, Wallace Shawn's Evening at the Talk House, and American Theatre Magazine's list of the 10 most produced playwrights.

Sarah Bay-Cheng talks to Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel about Vogel's PhD, theatre critics, and teaching young playwrights.