Academic journal at the cutting edge of performance studies. Scholarly, accessible, and dynamic with a global appeal. Edited by Richard Schechner. @CambridgeUP

New York, New York
Joined October 2022
Written by & for scholars & artists, TDR is where leaders of performance studies go for cutting edge writing about the performing arts, performance in everyday life, politics, popular entertainment, business, and sports. Submit to TDR via ScholarOne today! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Read TDR's Summer 2024 issue available online now.
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Call for Papers: TDR's "Blackface Geographies" Special Issue. Co-edited by Kellen Hoxworth & Douglas A. Jones, seeking scholarly essays on the transnational circulations of blackface and minstrelsy, aiming to expand beyond US-centric views. Submissions are welcomed by May 31st
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Prepare your manuscript according to TDR’s Writers’ Guidelines, found at cambridge.org/core/journals/…… Inquiries: [email protected].
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TDR Contributing Editor Sharon Aronson-Lehavi's new book on the intersection of faith and the arts, “Performing Religion on the Secular Stage,” explores how Western religion, secularism, and modern theater blend to create a theatrical hybrid.
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TDR Contributing Editor Fawzia Afzal-Khan @malangni published her groundbreaking work on "Queer Performativities in Pakistan" in Interventions. It explores the dynamic interplay of queer identities and performance in Pakistan, offering a fresh, postcolonial femiqueer perspective
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TDR Contributing Editor Fawzia Afzal-Khan @malangni published her groundbreaking work on "Queer Performativities in Pakistan" in Interventions. It explores the dynamic interplay of queer identities and performance in Pakistan, offering a fresh, postcolonial femiqueer perspective
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Click this link to read Afzal-Khan's work! tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.…
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The latest issue of TDR, "Still Exhausted: Labor, Digital Technologies, & the Performing Arts," is out NOW! This special issue is guest edited by Catie Cuan, Douglas Eacho, and Sydney Skybetter. Available 1 March in print and online at /cambridge.org/TDR
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The latest issue of TDR, "Still Exhausted: Labor, Digital Technologies, & the Performing Arts," is out NOW! This special issue is guest edited by Catie Cuan, Douglas Eacho, and Sydney Skybetter. Available 1 March in print and online at /cambridge.org/TDR
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Call for Papers: TDR's "Blackface Geographies" Special Issue. Co-edited by Kellen Hoxworth & Douglas A. Jones, seeking scholarly essays on the transnational circulations of blackface and minstrelsy, aiming to expand beyond US-centric views. Submissions are welcomed by May 31st
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Look out for the latest issue of TDR, "Still Exhausted Labor, Digital Technologies, & the Performing Arts," coming next week! This is a special issue guest edited by Catie Cuan, Douglas Eacho, and Sydney Skybetter. Available March 1 in print and online at cambridge.org/TDR.
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T260 is out now! Read this issue online at @CambridgeUP, featuring articles on insect metamorphosis, Augusto Boal's theatre of the oppressed, and the art of bell ringing in London: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Look out for the latest issue of TDR, coming this week! This issue (T260) features articles from @pannill, @feltondansky, @otserquina, and TDR Editor Richard Schechner, among many other performance studies scholars. Available Dec. 1 in print and online at cambridge.org/TDR.
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TDR is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Student Essay Contest: "'You act as Human, and I will act as AI': Technological Rehearsals at the Interface." The winning essay author is Kathy Fang (Columbia University).
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2 other essays received honorable mention: "Native North America in Motion: Performances of Resistance and Resilience" (Ashlyn Barnett, University of Colorado-Boulder) & "Attunement to the Great Near with Rebecca Belmore’s Wave Sound" (Georgia Phillips-Amos, Concordia University)
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Thanks to all who entered. We received an exciting range of subjects and styles and encourage all matriculated students to begin planning for this year's contest, including those who have previously entered. For more information the contest: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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