Project MUSE - Theatre Journal-Volume 77, Number 4, December 2025

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For your holiday enjoyment! Pannill, Miriam, and Harvey discuss Carla Neuss's Theatre Journal article on gender reveals, James Bundy's retirement from leading the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale,

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K. Walker on "Magic of the Mundane"

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ATHE 2025 Outstanding Article Awardees - Association for Theatre in Higher Education

ATHE’s Award for Outstanding Article in a journal acknowledges scholarship marked by methodological sophistication, complex and critical engagement with dramatic texts and performances, focused inquiries, and possible directions for future scholarship.

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Project MUSE - "Honest Work Done by Honest Dogs": Canine Unemployment, Interspecies Rehabilitation, and Disability Performance

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Authorship, Authority, Authenticity, Archive: The Case of Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind | JHUP Theatre

For most of its life in the theatre, Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind has existed primarily as a text. It was published in a series of anthologies that sought to recuperate underrepresented voices in US theatre: first, in Lindsay Patterson’s 1971 Black Theater: A 20th Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights, and then in Darwin T. Turner’s 1994 edition of Black Drama in America: An Anthology and Judith E. Barlow’s 1994 Plays by American Women: 1930-1960.[1] Following its 1955 premiere production off-Broadway at the Greenwich Mews Theatre, Trouble in Mind was produced sporadically, primarily at theatres dedicated to producing the work of Black playwrights—such as a 1979 New York City production at Woodie King Jr.’s New Federal Theatre, a 1984 Chicago production by the Kuumba Theatre Company, the play’s 1992 UK premiere at London’s Tricycle Theatre, and a 1998 production by the Negro Ensemble Company—to accompany occasional stagings on university and college campuses. Recently, it has received renewed attention amid the wider recuperation of Alice Childress as a major 20th-century Black playwright, including: productions at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 2007 and 2019; a 2010 production at the Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, California; a 2011 production by Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; a 2011 production by Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland; a 2016 production at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota; a 2017 production at the Theatre Royal Bath; and its much-belated arrival on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre in 2021.[2] This recent flurry of productions notwithstanding, for roughly 50 years prior to its Broadway premiere (which the New York Times called, “66 years late and still on time”), Trouble in Mind was circulated, read, imagined, analyzed, and critiqued predominantly as a text—as a literary object produced by an author—rather than as a play to be produced onstage.[3] Its textual life has exerted a strong though unacknowledged influence on the imagination and interpretation of the play. My essay “Alice Childress’s Troubling Method: Theatrical ‘Truth’ and the Cold War Politics of Rehearsing Racial Authenticity” (published in Theatre Journal vol. 77, no. 2) seeks to remediate the general overemphasis on Trouble in Mind as a textual object by attending more fully to Childress’s career as a theatre practitioner, her vision for a Black “people’s theatre,” and her communist activism as integral to her dramaturgy.[4] This historiographical project requires not only a turn to the material archive but also a reflexive engagement with archive, text, and context that invites reconsideration of prevailing narratives and conventional wisdom about the play and its history.

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Call for Papers | JHUP Theatre

Check out the following calls for papers for our 2025 issues on "Magic" (deadline Dec. 1, 2023) and "The Transnational Erotic" (deadline Feb. 1, 2025).

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Project MUSE - <i>State of The Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration</i> by Jonas Tinius (review)

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Project MUSE - Remembering the Army of Robust Children in the Age of the Utopian Turn: Militarism and Turkification in Late Ottoman Youth Theatre

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Call for new Coeditor of THEATRE JOURNAL - Association for Theatre in Higher Education

We are soliciting applications to fill a position to join the leadership teams of ATHE’s peer-reviewed journal, Theatre Journal. Apply by January 17, 2025.ATHE’s journals advance the association’s mission, credentials, and prominence in higher education in addition to promoting theatre studies scholarship to an international readership. The calls, posted below, provide information about the editors’ job responsibilities and details for submitting.Potential applicants should address their qualifications for filling these responsibilities and contributing to ATHE’s commitment to become an anti-racist organization. Those with questions about the positions and work involved are encouraged to contact the current editors; for general questions about the application process, contact the Vice President for Research and Publications, Kristin Leahey.

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Call for new Coeditor of THEATRE JOURNAL - Association for Theatre in Higher Education

We are soliciting applications to fill a position to join the leadership teams of ATHE’s peer-reviewed journal, Theatre Journal. Apply by January 17, 2025.ATHE’s journals advance the association’s mission, credentials, and prominence in higher education in addition to promoting theatre studies scholarship to an international readership. The calls, posted below, provide information about the editors’ job responsibilities and details for submitting.Potential applicants should address their qualifications for filling these responsibilities and contributing to ATHE’s commitment to become an anti-racist organization. Those with questions about the positions and work involved are encouraged to contact the current editors; for general questions about the application process, contact the Vice President for Research and Publications, Kristin Leahey.

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Project MUSE - "It Feels Like Being in Jail All Over Again": Staging the Criminalized Liminality of Sex Offenders

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Project MUSE - <i>Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater</i> by Carla Della Gatta (review)

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