THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003521
Ruth Schor
{"title":"Female Bonding in the City Space: Bohémiennes , Circles of Sociability, and the Reception of Henrik Ibsen in Late Nineteenth-Century Munich","authors":"Ruth Schor","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003521","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: It is only in recent years that Munich has been rediscovered as the site of a flourishing female-led Boheme and a vibrant salon culture in the late nineteenth century. While many of the female cultural figures involved were connected to theatre, these communal venues have not been studied as part of theatre reception history—specifically, the reception of Henrik Ibsen who lived in Munich at the time. Thus, this study shows how forums of sociability impacted Munich’s theatre scene and women’s artistic development, as demonstrated in the case studies of Marie Conrad-Ramlo, Elsa Bernstein and Franziska zu Reventlow.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"167 1","pages":"353-376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003527
Amy E. Swanson
{"title":"Diaspora without Displacement: The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal by Celina de Sá (review)","authors":"Amy E. Swanson","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"22 1","pages":"405-407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003528
Brian Valente-Quinn
{"title":"Dancing Opacity: Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal by Amy E. Swanson (review)","authors":"Brian Valente-Quinn","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003528","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"54 1","pages":"401-403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003519
Álvaro Albarrán Gutiérrez
{"title":"Beyond Catalonia: US Drama and HIV/AIDS on the Castilian-Speaking Stage","authors":"Álvaro Albarrán Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003519","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article examines the Spanish productions of Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994) and Harvey Fierstein’s On Tidy Endings (1987), which premiered in Madrid as Amor, coraje y compassion (1995) and Algo en común (1996–1997). I read the productions against the social backdrop of the AIDS crisis, assessing them as interventions that attempted to bring HIV/AIDS to the commercial stage but failed to earn a positive reception. The article analyzes both productions as reflections of a larger trend on the Castilian-speaking stage in Spain, which, deviating from the example set in Catalonia’s theatre industry, remained largely averse to the epidemic’s noncommercial appeal.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"179 1","pages":"289-324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003520
Christina Banalopoulou
{"title":"Theatre as Amnesic Machine: Forgetting as Acts of Staying during the Rum Migratory Expulsions in Istanbul, 1918–75","authors":"Christina Banalopoulou","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003520","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Istanbul’s Rum minority used theatre as an amnesic machine during the twentieth-century migratory expulsions. While scholarship frames minority performance primarily as memory preservation, the Rum community staged comedies, revues, and operettas to forget their vulnerability and assert their determination to remain. Drawing on archival research and interviews, I trace how theatrical forgetting functioned as nontransference during the Allied occupation and Treaty of Lausanne negotiations (1918–23), collective healing amid “soft expulsions” (1923–64), and recollection during final demographic decline (1964–75). By asserting the community’s determination to remain, Rum theatre reveals forgetting as a decolonial methodology for theatre historiography.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"13 1","pages":"325-352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003523
Joshua Chambers-Letson
{"title":"Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair by Summer Kim Lee (review)","authors":"Joshua Chambers-Letson","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"54 1","pages":"407-409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003524
Shonni Enelow
{"title":"American Performance in 1976: The Evolution of an Avant-Garde by Marc Robinson (review)","authors":"Shonni Enelow","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003524","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"11 1","pages":"412-413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003525
Carla Della Gatta
{"title":"Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas by Theresa Delgadillo (review)","authors":"Carla Della Gatta","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003525","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"286 1","pages":"410-411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003529
E. J. Westlake
{"title":"Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker (review)","authors":"E. J. Westlake","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"2 1","pages":"414-416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003522
Patricia Herrera,Heather S. Nathans
{"title":"ASTR at Seventy: Presidents Reflect Back and Look Forward","authors":"Patricia Herrera,Heather S. Nathans","doi":"10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsu.2026.a1003522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"38 1","pages":"377-400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}