We welcome special guests Jacob Gallagher-Ross of University of Toronto and Caden Manson of Big Art Group to talk about "interface theatre," an emerging genre of works that examine the way contemporary life is mediated by apps, devices, and data. Shayoni, Miriam, and Pannill then take stock of the political attacks on higher education and freedom of expression in recent months.

Intro music: Sunday Morning, by podington bear, found on Free Music Archive (CC BY-NC)

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In this edition, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Nicolas Ridout's book, Theatre and Ethics, trigger warnings in performance pedagogy, and issues related to race and casting in college theatre productions.

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Pannill Camp talks to P Carl of Emerson College and Howlround about gender and casting in academic theatre.

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Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey get together to discuss the 2016 job market, Emma Rice's departure from Shakespeare's Globe in London, and the ASTR conference in Minneapolis. This edition was recorded in Minneapolis, just before the 2016 election in the US.

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With special guest Henry Bial of KU, the co-hosts talk about Theatre Studies vs. Performance Studies in 2016, the ramifications of the Presidential Election for the profession, and the statistical tools administrators use to gauge academic output.

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In this first edition of 2017, Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Branislav Jakovljevic's book, Alienation Effects, the publication TheTheatreTimes.com, and uses of social media in theatre and performance academia.

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The hosts welcome Jennifer Parker-Starbuck of the University of Roehampton in London to talk about TAPS in the UK. We also discuss arts funding in the Trump era, and David Hare's condemnation of European director's theatre.

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From Chicago! Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill discuss Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Theatre, Wallace Shawn's Evening at the Talk House, and American Theatre Magazine's list of the 10 most produced playwrights.

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Harvey is back, and the co-hosts talk about patriarchy in theatre departments, the Contemporary Performance network, and Sarah Wilbur's article about the NEA in the latest edition of TDR.

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This edition of On TAP is dedicated to ASTR 2018. Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey talk about what led up to the decision to replace the conference with a scaled-back forum in San Diego, and we host a virtual awards ceremony to honor the recipients of ASTR's annual awards. We also share our drafts.

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On TAP is a three-headed, freewheeling conversation about topics of current interest to graduate students, professors, independent scholars, and all those interested in academic Theatre and Performance Studies. Each edition features established scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies chatting about several topics of field-wide interest, including trends in ideas and scholarly methods, pedagogy, career development, notable developments in research, publishing and hiring, and news-worthy events. Something like a cross between a casual faculty seminar and an impromptu conversation at a conference hotel bar, On TAP features knowledgeable scholars discussing a rapidly evolving field of knowledge. It is not peer-reviewed.