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Volume 77, Issue 4, December 2025

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Volume 76, Issue 1, March 2024

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Volume 75, Issue 3, September 2023

Towards Empathy: A Conversation with Vichet Chum

Alongside and Behind the Community: TeAda’s Decolonial Ensemble Theater Practice

“Drifting in this Dark Space”: A Conversation with Artist Dinh Q. Lê

Holding the Memory and Asking the Hard Questions: An Interview with Katie Ka Vang, May Lee-Yang, and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay

“There are no bosses between us, ours is a poetics of compromises”: An Interview with RezzaMastrella

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Pingju (Ping Opera) Actresses in 1930s Shanghai from the Bottom Up

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Sculpting Queer Futures for Survival: Jaishri Abichandani’s Everyday Deities

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Volume 74, Issue 1, March 2022

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"A Period of Extreme Uncertainty": A Conversation on Pandemic Theatre by AAPI Companies in California

Violent Continuities and the Possibility of Hope

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Proximity, Precarity, and Microscopic Distinctions in Nonhuman Performance: An Interview with Pei-Ying Lin

Call for Editors

Volume 74, Issue 3, September 2022

Volume 73, Issue 4, December 2021 - Shooting

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Volume 73, Issue 3, September 2021 - AI

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Judith Hamera Wins Honourable Mention for ATHE Outstanding Article Award

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Rebecca Schneider wins Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize

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Call for ATHE Journal Editor Positions

Katie Johnson wins ATHE Outstanding Article Award

New Online Editor: Margherita Laera

An Interview with Joanne Tompkins on "The Image of Theatre"

Blog Update: Archives, Numbers, Meaning: The Eighteenth-Century Playbill at Scale

Derek Miller wins Honorable Mention for ATHE Outstanding Essay Prize

New Theatre Journal Co-Editor: E.J. Westlake

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From the Editor

Volume 77 Issue 4 (December 2025)  

Editorial Comment: The Transnational Erotic

Laura Edmondson

Last June, I was privileged to attend a production of Tomorrow Never Came by Ugandan playwright Jedidiah Mugarura, which was featured in the Criminal Queerness theatre festival at the HERE Arts Center.1 To my knowledge, it...

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