Theatre and Performance Studies News
TOP STORY: TaPRA 2025 Conference to be hosted at Warwick
We're delighted to announce that the annual Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) conference will be hosted by Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick between 27 and 29 August 2025. The conference will mark both the 20th birthday of TaPRA and the 50th anniversary of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick. Our conference keynotes, plenary panels, artistic activity, conference dinner and programmed events will speak to the themes of milestones and markers, focussing on celebrations, festivities, spectacle and joy. We'll look forward to welcoming you to Warwick next year!
To keep up to date with the conference plans, please visit our dedicated TaPRA pages here.
Nadine Holdsworth and Anna Harpin shortlisted for the 2019 David Bradby Award for outstanding research in theatre & performance
Congratulations to Professor Nadine Holdsworth and Dr Anna Harpin who have been shshortlisted for the 2019 David Bradby Award for outstanding research in theatre & performance! Anna Harpin's 'Madness, Art and Society: Beyond Illness' and Nadine Holdsworth's co-authored work 'The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre' make up half the final shortlist. For more information about the award see here: http://tapra.org/david-bradby/