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A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
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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080 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
We welcome special guests Jacob Gallagher-Ross of University of Toronton and Caden Manson of Big Art Group to talk about "interface theater," an emerging genre of works that examine the way contempora...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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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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'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.
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April 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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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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On TAP Special: Jill Dolan — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
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 theater and performance studies schol...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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On TAP Special: Jill Dolan — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
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 theater and performance studies schol...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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The collapse of the NEH would be catastrophic. Also stopping payments would be illegal
Just heard from another NEH higher up that it is true, and the situation is even worse than the rumor above.
March 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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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079 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
Recorded live at the María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium at Princeton University's Lewis Arts Complex. Brian and Pannill welcome Anne García-Romero to talk about María Irene Fornés in Context, a ne...
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March 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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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.
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March 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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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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March 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"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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Judith Butler · This Is Wrong
We need a better understanding of the fears exploited by authoritarians: who is this ‘migrant’, so dangerous they...
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March 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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!
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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March 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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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.
March 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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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February 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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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.
it seems one of the stated purposes of capping overhead on NIH grants at 15% by those who champion the cap is to starve PhD programs in the humanities

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February 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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.”
February 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
February 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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/...
077 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
A special edition of the podcast on Dance Data and Dramaturgy. Pannill, Brian, and Shayoni welcome Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit to talk about their data visualizations that are part of the Edges of A...
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January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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/...
077 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
A special edition of the podcast on Dance Data and Dramaturgy. Pannill, Brian, and Shayoni welcome Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit to talk about their data visualizations that are part of the Edges of A...
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January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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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.)
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.
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January 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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RIP Richard Foreman (1937–2025), American #avant-garde playwright and #theater director extraordinaire.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/t...

📸: Joseph Moran/Brooklyn Rail.

#newyorktheater #downtown #contemporary #performance #postdramatic #richardforeman #RIP
January 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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.
December 23, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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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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076 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
Pannill, Jordan, and Shayoni discuss Joshua Chambers-Letson's recent essay on the "studies protocols" of performance studies, performing arts in carceral institutions, and 11Reflections: San Francisco...
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December 19, 2024 at 12:31 AM