Category Archives: ASTR
Call for Submissions: ASTR 2020 – Theatre & Performance After Repetition
New Orleans November 5 – 8, 2020 Repetition Repeats Itself The American Society for Theatre Research submission process is now open for the 2020 Conference: Theatre and Performance After Repetition. How do we examine theatre from different theories, methodologies and practices of repetition? How have new media technologies changed how we think of repetition and […]
2018 ASTR/TLA Plenary Call for Proposals
American Society for Theatre Research/Theatre Library Association ASTR/TLA 2018 Annual Conference Arousal: Theatre, Performance, Embodiment Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, California, November 15–18, 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (TLA) PLENARY The Thrill of Performing Arts Research The Theatre Library Association seeks papers addressing the theme of the 2018 TLA Plenary […]
TLA President’s Remarks at ASTR/TLA Conference 2017
November 18, 2017 Good afternoon. It is my pleasure and privilege to serve as President of the Theatre Library Association and on behalf of TLA thank you to the ASTR Officers, Executive Committee, Conference Program Chairs, and Conference Program Committee. I begin with a report on the activities of the American Theatre Archive Project on […]
2017 ASTR/TLA Conference: Extra/Ordinary Bodies: Interrogating the Performance and Aesthetics of “Difference”
Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead | Atlanta, Georgia | November 16-19, 2017 Friday, November 17 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Field Conversation 6: Instructional Resources in the Twenty-First Century (co-sponsored by the Theatre Library Association and the ASTR Ad Hoc Committee on Libraries) Sunday, November 19 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM Theatre Library Association Plenary: […]
Call for Papers – ASTR/TLA Plenary: “The Body in the Library”
The Body in the Library: A Call for Papers for the Plenary Panel of the Theatre Library Association Association with libraries has traditionally been perceived as damaging to the body. Chaucer’s Oxfordian Clerke is described as unnaturally thin; Prospero can only be redeemed when he decides to “drown [his] book”; and Faustus’s obsessive […]
Join TLA on the Fringe!
The Theatre Library Association’s Symposium planning committee is pleased to announce our fourth symposium on fringe theatre taking place on October 13, 2016 at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City. This year’s theme is Fringe Festivals : Live theatre on the edge and will include a day-long event bringing together scholars, performers, archivists, […]
Call for Proposals: 2016 ASTR Conference — Theatre Library Association Plenary
Trans(in)formation 2016 ASTR Conference — Theatre Library Association Plenary Call for Proposals November 3-6, 2016 Minneapolis Marriott City Center, Minneapolis, MN Transmission, translation, transformation, transplantation — these are just some of the issues that performing artists, theatre historians, archivists and librarians regularly confront. While the trans- prefix seems ubiquitous today, for the 2016 ASTR Conference, […]
Westward Ho! Tour of Portland Center Stage at the ASTR-TLA Annual Conference, November 6, 2015
We couldn’t have asked for a better day to get out and about in Portland. For once, the weather in the Pacific Northwest cooperated, giving us a mild fall day devoid of rain. Some of us walked from the Marriott, others took the street car or light rail, but a group of about twenty conference […]
TLA Plenary “Adventures in the Archives” – ASTR 2015
The TLA Plenary at the American Society for Theatre Research conference in November was a terrific success. In collaboration with the conference themes of advocacy and urgency, we opened our call for proposals by recalling the TNT series “The Librarians,” in which a group of scholars and historians become action heroes as they safeguard some […]
More about the TLA Plenary — ASTR TLA Conference 2014
The 2014 TLA Plenary at ASTR 2014 was a roaring success. Not only did the conference spark dynamic conversations around the topic of the “post-human” and the broadening spectrum of archival subjects, systems, and sites, over 60 attendees were present at the TLA plenary. Focusing on the role information professionals can play in the ever-evolving […]