MEDIA

Lecture

Transmedia Dramaturgy of Pre- and Post-Pandemic Theatre

The classical, Aristotelian dramaturgy of two dimensional linear storytelling traditionally used in theatre and film no longer works in transmedia narratives which in addition to deploying familiar plot-driven structural devices (inciting incident, climax, denouement), often incorporate multiple access points, serendipity, immersion, worldbuilding, role play, seriality, and time/space co-presence. With the Covid-19 pandemic forcing theatre to adapt new technologies and new transmedia dramaturgy, new questions emerge: how are we to analyze, think critically, and develop narratives that use multiple structural and architectural frameworks?

Panel

The Future of Transmedia PERFORMANCE

Lecture

Postcolonial Approaches to Central and Eastern European Theatre and Performance

The lecture addresses the application of postcolonial theory to Central and Eastern European theatre and performance and the potential implications – political, social, aesthetic – of contextualizing theatre and performance from the region through the prism of postcolonial critique. What are the limits and possibilities of the shift towards postcolonial theory within Slavic Studies’ scholarship in theatre and performance studies?

Podcasts

Discussion of the book The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor on NewBooksNetwork, about bridging the disciplinary divides between theater studies and Slavic studies, between the history of Poland in the twentieth century and the history of avant-garde theatre.

Jesters and Fools: A History of Wit and Whimsy – Discussion of jesters and fools throughout history.

KCRW Los Angeles reviews Opheliamachine

OnTap discusses TheTheatreTimes.com calling it “heroic project.”

Press

Quoted on disability and film representation.
On pandemic and theatre for Mass Cultural Council.
 Review of Life is Elsewhere.
Review of Life is Elsewhere.
Review of The Life and Times of Stephen Hawking.
Mention of The Life and Times of Stephen Hawking.
Opheliamachine mention.
On disability and representation.
On disability and representation.
On disability and representation.
Five best ideas of the day.
On disability and representation.
On disability and representation.
On disability and representation.
On disability and representation.
The best live theater to stream online.
Innovation Grant from LMDA for Performap.com.
The Elliot Hayes Award.
Review of The Rosenbergs, new opera.
Interview about modern opera.
The New York Times feature article on B.F.A. in Comedic Arts at Emerson College.
50 students in World Drama contributed fifty Wikipedia entries for underrepresented playwrights and plays.  Student editors in this course were in the top 15% of contributors in WikiEdu program this term, writing an average of 2,200 words each.
The class was also mentioned in The Washington Post story on the use of Wikipedia in classroom.
Op-ed on Boston’s theatre scene.
The Wall Street Journal reviews BLO’s production of The Love Potion.
The New York Times reviews BLO’s production of The Love Potion.
Opera News mentions Rigoletto dramaturgical program notes.
American Theatre reviews The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy.
The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy gets an international mention in The Manila Bulletin. 
On dramaturgy for The Boston Globe.
Cultural Weekly on Opheliamachine: “OpheliamachineTakes on Influential 20th-Century Theatre Work.”
Los Angeles Times reviews Opheliamachine.
Los Angeles Post reviews Opheliamachine.
Mention of Opheliamachine.
Santa Monica Daily Press reviews Opheliamachine.
Interview about the book, The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor. 
 Interview about the book, The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor. 
Interview about theatre and dramaturgy.