Latinx Media: an open-access textbook, delves into the vibrant phenomenon of film, television, and digital media by and about the Latinx community, introducing readers to[...]

This dissertation studies select performance examples from various group theatre companies in Kolkata, India during a fieldwork conducted in Kolkata between August 2012 a[...]

The masked performances of Kukeri have survived from pre-Christian times and are still performed in multiple villages all over Bulgaria by men and women covered in goat s[...]

This research focuses on the role of place in Invisible Theatre performances. Invisible Theatre is a subset of Theatre of the Oppressed developed by Augusto Boal in the e[...]

The 1960s ushered in a new era of theatrical experimentation and innovative performance practices, many founded upon rejecting the text as a central authority or guiding [...]

Inspired by the recent growth of interest in the United States for Asian American drama and dramatists, this dissertation investigates nine contemporary Korean American t[...]

In an early-modern context, magic was a dangerous topic. Even staged performances retained an element of potency. Toward the beginning of the 20th century, however, magic[...]

The theatre can be a space of hope where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) artists rehearse and perform identity. While much of the LGBTQ and African Dia[...]

Robot. Golem. Automaton. Android. The words for the artificial human are manifold, their composition as varied as their namesyet the concept is as old as history itself. [...]

The French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique endured a particularly tumultuous history of slavery under both British and French regimes, resulting in an unea[...]

The wayang puppet theatre is the oldest continuously performed theatrical form among the many genres of performing art in Bali. While wayang theatre has a fixed structure[...]

Dorothy Fields was a Broadway lyricist and librettist. Long overlooked by scholarship, the work of Fields is landmark. For much of the Golden Age of the American musical,[...]

The previous research on the question of the costuming of tragedy in the ancient world has centered on speculation as to how tragic actors were clothed in Athens during t[...]

Research into virtual worlds has overlooked how performance has influenced the categorization and standardization of gendered performance in these worlds. This dissertati[...]

This study examines the culture of baseball and football as paradigms for masculine performativity. The goal is to establish a new way to examine the construction of masc[...]

During the twentieth century, America not only developed a national drama, but as the countrys regions became more distinct, it developed regional dramas as well. No re[...]

Vaslav Nijinsky (1890?-1950) made his fame in Paris as the premiere danseur of the Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1912. It is largely upon these four seasons that Nijinsky c[...]

This dissertation compares the historical development of the Cherokee Historical Associations (CHA) Unto These Hills (1950) in Cherokee, North Carolina, and the Cherokee [...]

My dissertation considers the trend of artistic cooperation within international theatre festivals by analyzing an exemplary case: the International Theatre Olympics (TO)[...]

This dissertation is a qualitative study of contemporary new play development. The foundation of the research is two case studies, one full production and one ensemble cr[...]

While debates about the acting process raged from the eighteenth century onwards, there were few systematic, repeatable training programs developed in the west by the daw[...]

This study examines the effects of two concurrent cultural developments on British attitudes towards gender during the long eighteenth century: the introduction and popul[...]

In this dissertation, I demonstrate that geek theatre is creating a model for diversifying representation, attracting new audiences, and balancing sociopolitical content [...]