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Performing Arts
Interviews with performing artists and scholars of the performing arts about their new books.
April 28, 2026
Thinking Through Shakespeare
In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular because he “is above all writers, at least above all …
April 25, 2026
Cinematic Immunity
The unbelievable insider stories of how they “got the shot,” Cinematic Immunity tells the story of New York City's movie industry from the crew member…
April 25, 2026
It's Only Forever
Jes Battis' new book, It's Only Forever. Labyrinth (ECW Press, 2026) is a wild, intimate, and political deep dive into Jim Henson’s 1986 classic starr…
April 23, 2026
Trans Cinema
Since the 1990s, a largely underground upwelling of trans creativity has helped new trans identities, communities, and political movements come togeth…
April 18, 2026
Dybbuks, Golems, S. An-ski, and Jewish Legends in Times of Fear
S. An-ski’s play The Dybbuk, a story of possession set in a shtetl (think The Exorcist meets Fiddler on the Roof), is the foundation of modern Jewish …
April 17, 2026
The Shawshank Redemption in China
How can an entirely foreign cast perform the American “The Shawshank Redemption” in the Chinese language across China? In this episode of the Nordic A…
April 4, 2026
This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
Over the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Ke…
April 3, 2026
Currencies of Cruelty
Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive (NYU Press, 2026) is a bold and incisive reconsideration of the relationship …
March 28, 2026
Three Chords and Blessed Noise
Caryn Rose's Three Chords and Blessed Noise (2026) is an ode to the lost art of the tour diary. In November of 2025, Patti Smith and her band embarked…
March 27, 2026
Making Pagans
Today’s guest, John Kuhn, is the author of Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvania Press, …
March 16, 2026
Jewface
With his fake beard, putty nose, and thick Yiddish accent, the “stage Jew” was once a common character in vaudeville, part of a genre that mocked immi…
March 13, 2026
A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre
"Roman theatre" is a term often used to describe the theatre of ancient Italy during the second and third century BCE. Plautus and Terence are referre…
March 10, 2026
Screen Captures
Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Lever Press, 2026), Stephen Lee Naish guides us throu…
February 22, 2026
Shakespeare’s House
In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the 'Bir…
February 15, 2026
Stories We Dance / Stories We Tell
Higher education continually mediates long standing traditions while seeking new ways of thinking, creating a quiet tension as institutions respond to…
February 14, 2026
Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640
In Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg presents…
February 13, 2026
Postcolonialism Now
Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising (Orient BlackSwan, 2024) by Sourit Bhattacharya introduces a new method of decolonial reading a…
February 9, 2026
Who by Fire
In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on the Gr…
February 8, 2026
The Method
“When I set out to write this book, I decided to approach it like a biography. After all, the Method had parents, obscure beginnings, fumbling toward …
February 7, 2026
Ballroom
In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the…