For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.

The graphic novel vibrantly recreates the experience of watching Rude Mechs perform...

Playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam (1943-87) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s...

Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...

Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...

Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?

Can care be enacted through art?

These essays trace important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Meredith Monk, and Lin Hixson...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...

How does the world of book reviews work?

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...

Schwartz covers four decades of drag dances, exploring the politics of gender in motion...

This book features an investigation of men donning a women’s guises to impersonate female characters...

What is “Chinese dance,” how did it take shape in during China’s socialist period, and how has this socialist form continued to influence Post-Mao expressive cultures in the People’s Republic of China?

To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience?

Evans sets out to discover how people find ecstasy in a post-religious culture, how it can be good for us, and also harmful...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...