Theory/Text/Performance collects the best of new scholarly work in theater and performance studies. The series has been recognized by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education with an Award for Excellence in Editing, the first award of its kind by the association.
Series Editors
David Krasner, Five Towns College
Jen Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway, University of London
Harvey Young, Boston University
Founding Editor
Enoch Brater, University of Michigan
A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater
Chronicles Ito Michio’s career and explores how fantasy sustains a life disrupted by war, racialization, and imperialism
A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation
A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance
Dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond
Reveals theatre’s central role in the formation of bourgeois subjectivity
Demonstrates the power of embodied and digital networks in confronting neoliberal sociopolitical regimes in the Americas
Revisits the history of acting pedagogy and performance practice to reveal the influence of industrial culture and philosophy on theater and film
Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theater—the aesthetics of ruins
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures
Explores what brevity can teach us about the powers and limits of theater
Explores how theater in Toronto, the world’s most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup
Traces the deep roots of Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade and the city’s history of blackface masking and other forms of racial impersonation
An unflinching, illuminating look at three U.S. artists and their performances of suffering
Examines the interplay of artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia and reveals their inseparability
An exploration of how live events—theater, dance, and installation art—stage encounters between the present and a radically ambivalent future
A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world
Reading representations of whiteness by contemporary African American performers and artists
A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War
The first philosophical study devoted solely to acting, offering a meditation on the spillover from acting to life
How simulated experiences—from living history to emergency preparedness drills—create meaning in performance
Meditations on those entities the audience does not see—and their profound significance in the theater
