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.
Sensing the City research team launch new exhibition
Urban Sensographies: an Urban Room takes place at Metropolis between 22 and 30 July and is free and open to the public
Draws upon the three-year Sensing the City project that explored Coventry using human senses to gather data
Contributions from Patricia Smyth, Julia Peetz and Goran Petrović-Lotina in the latest PR Journal Issue - On Theatricality
Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts sees three contributions from our staff in the June 2019 issue On Theatricality.
Theatricality, Michael Fried and Nineteenth-Century Art and Theatre
by Patricia Smyth
Theatricality as an Interdisciplinary Problem
Julia Peetz
Theatricality
A dramatic form of contesting spectatorial codes
Goran Petrović-Lotina
Congratulations to Dr Goran Petrović-Lotina who has been awarded the WIRL-COFUND (GRP Global Governance) Fellowship
His postdoctoral topic is Performance and Populism.