On Tap: A Theatre And Performance Studies Podcast

In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey welcome Noe Montez of Tufts University to talk about the quantitative features of the TAPS job market. We also discuss the Aesthetic Perspectives framework published by Americans for the Arts and Heiner Goebbels' essay Research or Craftsmanship.

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey respond to listener questions. We share some of our biggest writing influences, opine on peer-review, and offer advice for emerging scholars. Plus, one tweet makes Harvey giggle, and a lucky listener wins an On TAP coffee mug!

The co-hosts talk about Lisa Freeman's book, Antitheatricality and the Body Public, and MOOCs, plus Maaike Bleeker of University of Utrecht joins us to talk about TAPS in Europe.

Sarah Bay-Cheng talks to Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater, about the state of non-profit theatres, market thinking in theatre and academia, and what stories should be the next to be told on American stages.

In this episode, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Julia Walker and Glenn Odom's article about Performance Studies and Modernist Studies, the place of applied theatre in TAPS, and 2017-18 season announcements from regional theatres. We also end up talking about the movie Arrival.

The hosts welcome Jennifer Parker-Starbuck of the University of Roehampton in London to talk about TAPS in the UK. We also discuss arts funding in the Trump era, and David Hare's condemnation of European director's theatre.

In this first edition of 2017, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Branislav Jakovljevic's book, Alienation Effects, the publication TheTheatreTimes.com, and uses of social media in theatre and performance academia.

With special guest Henry Bial of KU, the co-hosts talk about Theatre Studies vs. Performance Studies in 2016, the ramifications of the Presidential Election for the profession, and the statistical tools administrators use to gauge academic output.

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey get together to discuss the 2016 job market, Emma Rice's departure from Shakespeare's Globe in London, and the ASTR conference in Minneapolis. This edition was recorded in Minneapolis, just before the 2016 election in the US.

Pannill Camp talks to P Carl of Emerson College and Howlround about gender and casting in academic theatre.

In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Nicolas Ridout's book, Theatre and Ethics, trigger warnings in performance pedagogy, and issues related to race and casting in college theatre productions.

In this edition, the co-hosts discuss dramaturgy on the campaign trail, the Call for the Future section of essays in Theatre Survey, and the classes they are currently teaching in the new term.

Sarah Bay-Cheng talks to Sara Warner of Cornell University about Paula Vogel's recent completion of a PhD degree.

Our ATHE Special! In this edition, Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill discuss PSi 22 in Melbourne, Australia and the keynotes given by Bruno Latour and Rebecca Schneider, and past ATHE conferences. Plus, in our first live recording, the co-hosts welcome Brian Herrera, Charlotte Canning, and D.J. Hopkins to talk about their favorite texts for introductory courses.

Sarah Bay-Cheng, Pannill Camp, and Harvey Young discuss the future of On TAP, Beyoncé's visual album, Lemonade, and the Comedie-Francaise Registers Project in light of criticism of Digital Humanities initiatives.

In this edition, special guest Patricia Ybarra, ATHE President, discusses adjunct and contingent labor, plus live vs. mediated performance spectatorship, and the costs of an MFA degree.

In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss the Scalar/Hemispherica "What is Performance Studies?" ebook, performance practice in PhD training, and scholarly criticism of Hamilton.

In this edition, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Harvey Young, and Pannill Camp discuss the new podcast, the twentieth anniversary of Joseph Roach's Cities of the Dead, and the 2016 job market.