...John H. Muse John H. Muse discusses Jonathan Ball’s 2010 collection, Clockfire , a compendium of “sketches of impossible plays,” as a means of interrogating theater’s relationship both to surveillance and the virtual, both of which Muse sees as inherent in all theatrical acts, real or imagined...

... (no two showings of Dorsen’s piece were exactly the same) and behaving the way that two slightly addled human conversationalists might. Can Hello Hi There be considered live theater? What is the status of live theater in an age of virtual media? How do drama­ turgical principles change when computers...

..., ImPulsTanz, Vienna, 2013. Photo: Eva Würdinger Lawrence Switzky Transmedia Ethics Why Theater Needs Philosophy Needs Virtual Reality Needs Video Games When people think about transmediation, the translation of the form or content of an artwork from one medium to another, they tend...

... might. Can Hello Hi There be considered live theater? What is the status of live theater in an age of virtual media? How do drama­ turgical principles change when computers take over? The questions Dorsen asked onstage echoed the questions confronting us as guest editors of Digital...

... the theatrical motif to examine three separate issues. The first concerns Stalin's chameleon-like behavior towards all who came into contact with him. He goes on to describe the masterful staging of the Moscow Purge Trials during which virtually all the key actors - the defendants, witnesses, prosecutor, judge...

...David Adjmi; Christine Evans; Charlotte Meehan; Lisa Schlesinger; Christopher Shinn; Naomi Wallace Caridad Svich moderates a virtual panel of American playwrights—David Adjmi, Christine Evans, Charlotte Meehan, Lisa Schlesinger, Christopher Shinn, and Naomi Wallace—in a discussion about the abuses...

.... The pandemic helped bring me back to theater because of the power of human connection. Suddenly, folx could collaborate with artists around the world, and the quality of the work was just as good or better than the virtual theater being done by well-­funded established institutions. The pandemic became...

..., to nominate Bonanza as a piece of what Gabriella Giannachi dubs “virtual theatre,” since all of the live performance events that she considers under that rubric feature present human actors. Perhaps more important, her defining examples of virtual theaters — whether live or not, and ranging from...

... Sistine Madonna. Meanwhile, numerous musi- cians, including Suzanne Vega and Ben Folds, have held concerts in Second Life —  performing as avatars with virtual instruments. The performing arts, on the other hand, have only recently begun to explore Sec- ond Life. Though some theaters have...

... Sistine Madonna. Meanwhile, numerous musi- cians, including Suzanne Vega and Ben Folds, have held concerts in Second Life —  performing as avatars with virtual instruments. The performing arts, on the other hand, have only recently begun to explore Sec- ond Life. Though some theaters have...

.... The performing arts, on the other hand, have only recently begun to explore Sec- ond Life. Though some theaters have established virtual replicas of themselves — most notably the New Globe, proposed for Governors Island in New York City, but not yet approved in Real Life — few actual performances have taken...

... Page 3 Up Front Our title is New Music-Theater, and that’s how we first thought of this issue. But really the hyphen should be moved: The focus turned out to be on New-Music Theater—music theater that isn’t just...

..., a series of posts by one or more characters constitutes a performance in real Company, 2010. time but in virtual space. After offering a survey of recent theatrical activity of both Photo: Charles Hunter Theater 42:2 doi 10.1215/01610775-1507784 © 2012 by John H. Muse...

... discussion of how Deleuze thinks of the virtual in Sensing the Virtual. Massumi writes, 44 on queering theater Although the virtual, Deleuze explains, cannot itself be seen or felt, it cannot not be seen or felt, as other than itself. What he means is that in addition to residue in static form, the formative...

... augmentation); high space and body distortion with linear temporality (e.g. Kris Verdonck’s robot performance, or productions of realist plays in virtual environments); and high body distortion (e.g. the Seinendan Theater and Osaka Robot Theater Project).9 Realism is the paradigmatic...

...- ers remain in short supply. That’s one conclusion to draw from recent performances and research in the worlds of professional and academic theater. Scholars have carved new distinctions among modes of spectatorship and public engagement, suggesting additional categories of watching and reception...

...- ers remain in short supply. That’s one conclusion to draw from recent performances and research in the worlds of professional and academic theater. Scholars have carved new distinctions among modes of spectatorship and public engagement, suggesting additional categories of watching and reception...

... and Its Discontents Tom Sellar In the twenty-­first century potential audiences are everywhere, but paying custom- ers remain in short supply. That’s one conclusion to draw from recent performances and research in the worlds of professional and academic theater. Scholars have carved new...

...- ers remain in short supply. That’s one conclusion to draw from recent performances and research in the worlds of professional and academic theater. Scholars have carved new distinctions among modes of spectatorship and public engagement, suggesting additional categories of watching and reception...

...Christopher Grobe © 2012 by Christopher Grobe 2012 City of Abstracts, created by William Forsythe, Athens Hellenic Festival, 2007. Photo: Philip Bussmann Christopher Grobe Refined Mechanicals; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Share the Stage New Scholarship on Theater...