PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism

Surveys a diverse array of Black performance and visual texts that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative configurations of time in relation to race in the twenty-first century

The first English-language translation of the 1968 Théâtre de l’Aquarium activist play about two students from different backgrounds as they prepare for an exam, The Inheritor speaks forcefully as ever on education access and inequality.

The Mee-Ow Show at 50 presents the history of Northwestern’s Mee-Ow Show, now the longest-running original student sketch comedy and improv show in the country, and its considerable impact on contemporary comedy.

The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear shows how theatrical conditions are interconnected with political struggles: who is seen and heard, how labor is valued, and what counts as “political” in the first place.

Men’s fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today

A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century

Crafting a fluid yet critical new framework, explored via a series of case studies, including their own practice-as-research, Ben Spatz confronts hegemonic modes of white writing and white institutionality and examines alternative forms of knowledge.

Alisa Zhulina shows how canonical fin-de-siècle playwrights interrogated the meaning of capitalism, staging economic questions as moral and political concerns and challenging contemporary socioeconomic theories within the boundaries of bourgeois theater.

An examination of neoliberal ideology's ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices.