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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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'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.

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

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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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.

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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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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Judith Butler · This Is Wrong We need a better understanding of the fears exploited by authoritarians: who is this ‘migrant’, so dangerous they...

"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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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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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!

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.

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

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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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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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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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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/...

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/...

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.

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.)

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

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.

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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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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YouTube video by Found Footage Fest Pricemaster

I cannot believe none of you told me about The Pricemaster

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A screenshot of Leticia Ridley’s article “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies.”

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!

On TAP: 075 Podcast Episode · On TAP: A Theatre and Performance Studies Podcast · 11/16/2024 · 1h 16m

Today instead of reading I’m going to treat my #ASTR2024 FOMO by listening to the new episode of “On TAP” then watching the Niners. Because I’m THAT weird #theatre nerd …the one who also really loves sports.
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