On Tap: A Theatre And Performance Studies Podcast

Recorded in-person at ASTR 2021 in San Diego, Pannill, Sarah, Leticia, and Jordan discuss the Journal of Dramatic Criticism special section on uses and abuses of the term performative, the sessions on feminist theatre past and present hosted by Cornell University, and ASTR 2021 itself.

Pannill, Harvey, and Miriam discuss Miriam's research into book publishing in theatre and performance studies, the movement to improve working conditions in theatre, and the New York Times Magazine story, “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?”

And we're back. Sarah, Brian, and Kareem discuss Trevor Boffone’s book, Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok, teaching TAPS in the ongoing pandemic era, and the Netflix series, The Chair.

Pannill, Sarah, and Harvey reunite to talk about Fake Friends' new internet production, This American Wife, and to read and discuss each others' published writing.

Sarah, Miriam, and The Daughters of Lorraine, aka Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley, discuss NFTs, reflections on teaching through the pandemic, and a scientific study of theatre's effects on empathy.

Pannill, Harvey, and Brian talk about post-pandemic future of academic work, welcome Kate Bredeson back to the podcast to talk about the ongoing occupation of theatre buildings in France, and discuss Rahda Blank's film The Forty-Year-Old Version.

Harvey, Jen, and Kareem talk about LaDonna Forsgren's article on The Wiz and Black feminist spectatorship, Ike Holter's audio play, I Hate It Here, and AI applications that replicate the voices of dead vocalists. Plus Pannill drops in to share fun facts about On TAP to mark five years of podcasting.

Pannill welcomes Tracy Davis of Northwestern University and Peter Marx of the University of Cologne to discuss their recent co-edited book, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography.

Sarah, Harvey, and new regular co-hosts Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey (also known as the Daughters of Lorraine) talk about EDI work in theatre and performance studies, Ratatouille the TikTok musical, and Race and Performance After Repetition, the new multi-author volume edited by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, and Shane Vogel.

Pannill and new regular co-hosts Brian Herrera and Miriam Felton-Dansky discuss Lindsay Brandon Hunter's article, "We Are Not Making a Movie," streaming presentations of works by Adrienne Kennedy and Luis Alfaro, and new experimental works available online by Split Britches and Marike Splint.

Sarah (in the lead co-host role!), Pannill, and new regular co-host Jen Pierce talk about the multiple threats to arts, humanities, and TAPS career opportunities in higher education, alt-ac career pathways in the tech sector for theatre and performance students, and the streamed multi-media play, Circle Jerk.

Harvey, Pannill, and Kareem Khubchandani discuss José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown, the current impediments to TAPS research, and Basil Kreimendahl's 2016 essay about cis playwrights and trans characters.

Justine Nakase and Kate Bredeson join the co-hosts to share their perspectives on the protests for Black lives in Portland, Oregon. Plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss the pandemic's effects on performing arts education and research, and share some news about the future of the podcast.

Sarah Bay-Cheng interviews Anthony Sargent, CEO of Toronto's Luminato arts festival, about the challenges for live arts in the present and the future.

Miriam Felton-Dansky joins us to talk about the artistic and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, plus Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about the reactions inside higher education, and revisit Waiting for Guffman (1996), which we all watched last week.

Live at the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces at Brown University. We discuss the impact of coronavirus on arts and higher education both near and long term, the recent issue of TDR dedicated to algorithms and performance, and thoughts on the ways colleges prepare students for arts careers in the 21st century. This edition features 4th chair contributions from Ian Garrett, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Elise Morrison, and Brandon Powers. Many thanks to Sydney Skybetter and the team at CRCI 2020!

Soraya Nadia McDonald of The Undefeated joins the co-hosts to talk about theatre criticism, plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss Stephen Scott-Bottoms' new article on "Modern Water," and the Es Devlin episode of the Netflix show Abstract.

Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill discuss Cats, Practical cats, Dramatical cats Pragmatical cats, Fanatical cats Oratorical cats, Delphic-oracle cats Skeptical cats, Dispeptical cats Romantical cats, Pedantical cats  Critical cats, Parasitical cats Allegorical cats, Metaphorical cats Statistical cats and Mystical cats Political cats, Hypocritical cats Clerical cats, Hysterical cats Cynical cats, Rabbinical cats

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Fred Moten's essay on Othello, E. Patrick Johnson's documentary, Making Sweet Tea, and the upside of the field of theatre and performance studies in the twenty-first century.

Recorded at ASTR, Sarah, Pannill, and Elizabeth Hunter (subbing in for Harvey) talk about Sharon Marcus's new book The Drama of Celebrity, meritocracy in academia, and ASTR 2019 including the demo of the VESPACE virtual reality eighteenth-century theatre project.