We hope you are having a happy start to the semester. If you are using a Theatre Topics essay, let us know what you’re using. Also remember to have students download the essay rather than create a PDF so we get a more accurate sense of readership.

Theatre Topics first issue of 2021 is getting proofed. While you wait to receive your copy, please join us in welcoming new Editorial Board members Dr Michelle Liu Character, La Donna Forsgren, LBH , @kareempuff @pmckelveyphd, Margaret Werry, and Isaiah Wooden.

Theatre Topics 31.1 is now available on Project Muse. Look for the print copies in your mailboxes soon! muse.jhu.edu/issue/44160

In the latest issue of Theatre Topics, @JulioAgustinNYC looks at the contributions of Latinx choreographers, and the ways Broadway continues to center whiteness in "Latin" dance styles: bit.ly/3uTh4dT

Summary of 10 years of job market tracking by Noe Montez. Every graduate student in TAPS ought to know this information on their way into a PhD program.

The article mentioned is part of last year’s special issue on Queer Pedagogy, co-edited by @kareempuff

Please see our CFP for our 2022 special issue with the theme of attendance. Reach out to @drjohnfletcher1 and Shannon Walsh with further questions!

Issue 31.2 of Theatre Topics is in! This is our special issue in Essentials. Congratulations to @drjohnfletcher1 and the authors. Find it in your mailboxes soon or on Project Muse!

"Working in quarantine, I found myself broadcasting theatre...with the sounds of wildlife, landscaping and construction equipment; overheard conversations among children; and the changing sunlight." Read more in the latest issue of Theatre Topics: bit.ly/3sOiIh7

So excited to see my short essay “The Smell” in the latest issue of Theatre Topics, which just arrived today. My thanks to @drjohnfletcher1 for his support and editorial vision. The issue he has assembled on “Essentials” is, well, essential. Get after it!

ICYMI: Now on the blog - a #RecoveryMonth reader of scholarship on addiction, recovery, and care, all freely available through the month of September, with research from Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology , NIB, Journal of College Student Development, Postmodern Culture, Theatre Topics and more: bit.ly/3h9R89g

Just found out that my Theatre Topics piece, “A Nonbinary Actor Prepares (for Battle),” is on a syllabus at a college I was too intimidated to apply to in high school. They are going to be teaching emerging TGNC artists my work. I am stunned and so grateful. 💜

It's my final issue of @theatretopics. Page proofs are off to press. Hopefully you'll see it soon. Featuring essays from @nssavard, @olgaps Georgina Escobar /Adriana Dominguez/ Kim McKean, Peilin Liang, & @drayshia. Thanks for letting me work/play in this space. It meant a lot . ♥️

"Proof of vaccination/Face Mask Required" is now the norm for live performance. How has theatre etiquette changed over time? Research from Theatre Topics is cited in this history of audience norms in The Conversation U.S. : theconversation.com/theatre-audien…

Excited to reveal the theme and CFP for our 2023 special issue: "Citation." As Annabel L. Kim once quipped “Everybody cites.” Our question is, from Broadway to the classroom, how does theatre cite? Reach out to @ShawyerS and Shannon Walsh with further questions!