Dan Smith

Dramaturgy and History: Staging the Archive Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often taken for granted: dramaturgs’ engagements with history and historiography. Dramaturgs play a v...

LMDA digital conference featured a thoughtful session on this book: www.routledge.com/Dramaturgy-a...

I was confused about the Robbie Williams discourse, because that music video where he removed his skin was everywhere when it came out. Then I looked up the year and realized "everywhere" meant "Chicago gay bars."

Plays by Paco Bezerra: Cutting-Edge Spanish Theatre This vital anthology includes fresh translations of four of Paco Bezerra's plays in one edited collection for the first time in English. Winner of the National…

Honorable Mention for the 2024 ASTR Translation Prize went to Anton Pujol for Plays by Paco Bezerra: Cutting Edge Spanish Theatre. www.bloomsbury.com/us/plays-by-...

Naqqali Trilogy — Harvard University Press Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie—playwright, director, screenwriter, and scholar—has made the greatest contribution to modern Persian drama of any individual artist, yet he...

Theatre translation: This year's ASTR Translation Prize winners are Nikta Sabouri and Richard Saul Chason for Naqqali Trilogy, an anthology of three plays by Bahram Beyzaie. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

We were just reminiscing about our trip to the Pink Pony Bar on Mackinac Island, and now several family members in their 60s have been introduced to Chappell Roan.

20 years ago in Massachusetts I dated a lawyer who was involved in NORML, and tonight I chatted with a corporate marijuana retailer who is based in Massachusetts and expanding into Michigan. Life comes at you fast.

My institution intends to launch an initiative encouraging interdisciplinary teams of 3 faculty researchers to work together. The name of the program? Tetrad. Maybe the university is the fourth partner.

Remember when Wayne Brady came out as pansexual? That feels like a long time ago.

At a well-attended book launch for my colleague Philip Effiong, who has recently published a memoir of his childhood experiences of the Nigeria-Biafra War: www.amazon.com/Nigerias-Civ...

Self portrait as interdisciplinary alien for #CIRCLEMSU Launch event.

Maybe I'm on nobody's side.

Today's Gen Ed Theatre lecture on Lighting Design was much too long! There was a time when it did not have sufficient content. I have overcorrected.