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Dance in US Popular Culture
Chapter 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 […]
Thinking through Theatre and Performance by Maaike Bleeker, et al. (review)
Theatre 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
Chapter 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 […]
Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time by John H. Muse (review)
PAJ: 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 […]