Harvey, Pannill, and Kareem Khubchandani discuss José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown, the current impediments to TAPS research, and Basil Kreimendahl's 2016 essay about cis playwrights and trans characters.

Justine Nakase and Kate Bredeson join the co-hosts to share their perspectives on the protests for Black lives in Portland, Oregon. Plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss the pandemic's effects on performing arts education and research, and share some news about the future of the podcast.

Sarah Bay-Cheng interviews Anthony Sargent, CEO of Toronto's Luminato arts festival, about the challenges for live arts in the present and the future.

Miriam Felton-Dansky joins us to talk about the artistic and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, plus Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about the reactions inside higher education, and revisit Waiting for Guffman (1996), which we all watched last week.

Live at the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces at Brown University. We discuss the impact of coronavirus on arts and higher education both near and long term, the recent issue of TDR dedicated to algorithms and performance, and thoughts on the ways colleges prepare students for arts careers in the 21st century. This edition features 4th chair contributions from Ian Garrett, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Elise Morrison, and Brandon Powers. Many thanks to Sydney Skybetter and the team at CRCI 2020!

Soraya Nadia McDonald of The Undefeated joins the co-hosts to talk about theatre criticism, plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss Stephen Scott-Bottoms' new article on "Modern Water," and the Es Devlin episode of the Netflix show Abstract.

Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill discuss Cats,

Practical cats, Dramatical cats

Pragmatical cats, Fanatical cats

Oratorical cats, Delphic-oracle cats

Skeptical cats, Dispeptical cats

Romantical cats, Pedantical cats 

Critical cats, Parasitical cats

Allegorical cats, Metaphorical cats

Statistical cats and Mystical cats

Political cats, Hypocritical cats

Clerical cats, Hysterical cats

Cynical cats, Rabbinical cats

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Fred Moten's essay on Othello, E. Patrick Johnson's documentary, Making Sweet Tea, and the upside of the field of theatre and performance studies in the twenty-first century.

Recorded at ASTR, Sarah, Pannill, and Elizabeth Hunter (subbing in for Harvey) talk about Sharon Marcus's new book The Drama of Celebrity, meritocracy in academia, and ASTR 2019 including the demo of the VESPACE virtual reality eighteenth-century theatre project.

Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey talk about the decline of movie theatre audiences, theatre etiquette, and Waterwell Theater Company's new project, The Flores Exhibits.