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Dance in US Popular Culture
July 21, 2023 /0 Comments/in Book Chapter /by Aaron ThomasChapter 9 (Case Study 1): Is He… You Know… Opening Section The text on the TikTok video reads “What happens when you put gen Z in the same room together.” What happens is this: in a crowded dance club populated mostly by women, a large video screen shows a music video, and just at […]
Love Is Love Is Love: Broadway Musicals and LGBTQ Politics, 2010-2020
March 23, 2023 /0 Comments/in Book /by Aaron ThomasInfelicities
August 12, 2021 /0 Comments/in Peer-Reviewed Articles /by Aaron ThomasThinking through Theatre and Performance by Maaike Bleeker, et al. (review)
March 27, 2020 /0 Comments/in Review /by Aaron ThomasTheatre Topics, 30.1 Opening section What can theatre help us to do? How can performance help us to think in new ways? What are the possibilities that theatre can open up? What can we learn from the performing body? How might theatre function as theory? Thinking Through Theatre and Performance, the first in an […]
The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical
September 2, 2019 /0 Comments/in Book Chapter /by Aaron ThomasChapter 16: The Pink Elephant in the Room Opening Section The day after the revival of Promises, Promises opened on April 25, 2010, Newsweek posted an article entitled “Straight Jacket” on its website that began with the following provocation: “The reviews for the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises were negative enough, even though most […]
From Here to There – Gloss
August 13, 2019 /0 Comments/in Other Publication /by Aaron ThomasTruth and Translation at the Heart of Violence
June 6, 2019 /0 Comments/in Peer-Reviewed Articles /by Aaron ThomasMicrodramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time by John H. Muse (review)
May 14, 2018 /0 Comments/in Review /by Aaron ThomasPAJ: Performing Arts Journal, 40.2 Opening section It seems appropriate that in our current moment – as we scroll through Instagram or watch brief videos on Snapchat – that a theatre scholar would seek meaning and profundity in short plays. After all, people’s attention spans are reportedly growing shorter and shorter, and more and […]