Theatre Symposium Conference

About Theatre Symposium

Through script readings, presentations, and collaborative discussions, Theatre Symposium provides a space for practitioners and scholars to share their work, connect with colleagues, and contribute to ongoing conversations in the field.

Theatre Symposium 33 (2026) has concluded. Please watch this page for information about Theatre Symposium 34, to be announced later this year.

Past Events & Publications

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Past Issues of Theatre Symposium

1. Commedia dell’Arte Performance 

2. Theatre in the Antebellum South 

3. Voice of the Dramaturg 

4. The Reemergence of the Theatre Building in the Renaissance 

5. Drama as Rhetoric/Rhetoric as Drama 

6. Crosscurrents in the Drama: East and West 

7. Theatre and Violence 

8. Theatre at the Margins: The Political, the Popular, the Personal, the Profane 

9. Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century 

10. Representations of Gender on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage 

11. Constructions of Race in Southern Theatre: From Federalism to the Federal Theatre Project 

12. Elizabethan Performances in North American Spaces 

13. Theatre in Transit: Tours of the South 

14. Theatre, War and Propaganda 

15. Theatre and the Moral Order 

16. Comedy Tonight! 

17. Outdoor Drama 

18. The Prop’s the Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered 

19. Theatre and Film 

20. Gods and Groundlings: Historical Theatrical Audiences 

21. Ritual, Religion, and Theatre 

22. Broadway and Beyond: Commercial Theatre Considered 

23. Theatre and Youth 

24. Theatre and Space 

25. Cross-cultural Dialogue on the Global Stage 

26. In Other Habits: Theatrical Costume 

27. Theatre and Embodiment 

28. Theatre and Citizenship 

29. Theatre and Race  

30. Theatre and Politics  

31. Theatre and the Popular  

32. Material Performance and Performing Objects