Theatre History Studies articles

Recent articles from Theatre History Studies

Keynote speech from the twenty-eighth mid-America theatre conference, changing theatrical landscapes: mapping new directions in history, pedagogy, and practice in the twenty-first century.
January 1, 2008... I'm inspired by the boldness of the challenge of this conference's theme. As I thought about it while preparing this talk, I even began to wax creative and found myself becoming excited over the possibilities. "Mapping new directions" offers the opportunity to reevaluate, to extend the reach...

Between the lines: editing the notebooks of Tennessee Williams.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... In 1997, John Eastman, the executor of the Tennessee Williams Estate, asked me if I would be willing to look at the notebooks of Tennessee Williams and give him my thoughts as to whether or not they should be published. Two weeks later a box arrived containing photocopies of the twenty-three...

Research and performance: a roundtable on the future of the archive.
January 1, 2008... The American Society for Theatre Research's Fiftieth-Anniversary Conference in Chicago in November 2006 chose as its theme "'America,' 'Society,' 'Theatre,' and 'Research.'" For the plenary on research, conference chair Shannon Jackson proposed a special roundtable on the state of the...

Performance in the archives.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... On Christmas Eve in 2001, New York City's outgoing mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, signed an agreement with city authorities that allowed him unprecedented control over his public records. Giuliani convinced the commissioner of Records and Information Services to allow him to box up his mayoral...

Performing arts archives: dynamic entities complementing and supporting scholarship and creativity.(Report)
January 1, 2008... The Role of Archives in Democratic Societies In the course of history, whenever political and social oppression take place, many records that document the past and the rights of countries or individuals are destroyed in order to make essential evidence unavailable to anyone who may try to...