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R/18 at ASECS 2025
This year's virtual ASECS means different ways to connect with performance studies scholars and artists. The conference unfolds over two...
Misty Anderson
5 days ago

Sir Anthony Love and Cato Remixed at PAC
If you are fortunate enough to be in the greater Philadelphia area next Monday, you won't want to miss the Philadelphia Arts Collective...
Misty Anderson
Dec 4, 2024
CFP: Eighteenth-Century Heritage Repertoires and the Decolonizing Mandate
CFP for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, which will hold a virtual conference 28/29 March 2025. Co-Chairs: Caroline...
David Taylor
Sep 9, 2024

In the Rehearsal Room with Aphra Behn
I’m writing from the rehearsal room. Only there’s no room. Or rather there is a room, in Bicester (a town in North-East Oxfordshire), but...
David Taylor
Apr 17, 2023

Recovering 18th-century theatre's WOW factor
A new AR smartphone app - A Stage in Time - allows users to step into full-scale sets from one of the 18th century's most spectacular...
David Taylor
Mar 7, 2023


R/18 Symposium: Reactivating Restoration and 18th Century Theatre for Today's Stages
On October 27th and 28th of 2022, the R/18 Collective, the Congo Square Theatre, and the Newberry Library for Renaissance Studies...
Alex Sausa
Feb 22, 2023

"On Decolonizing Theatre": postdoc opportunity
Northwestern University seeks applicants for a one-year Mellon-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellow will play a leading role in...
The R/18 Collective
Feb 3, 2023

Latest News: Online Shows, Newberry Symposium
Did you miss our latest email update? You can find it here, with news on the the upcoming Red Bull production of The Relapse, the...
Misty Anderson
Oct 24, 2022

Inchbald's Animal Magnetism - watch now!
We're delighted to announce that the recording of the professional, script-in-hand performance of Elizabeth Inchbald's Animal Magnetism...
David Taylor
Oct 10, 2022


Who's the Dupe? - Available to watch for 1 week only!
We're delighted to announce that the recording of the professional, script-in-hand performance of Hannah Cowley's Who's the Dupe? is now...
David Taylor
Sep 23, 2022


Who's the Dupe?
We're delighted to be partnering with Creation Theatre and director Colin Blumenau to mount a professional, script-in-hand performance of...
David Taylor
Apr 12, 2022


R/18 Interview with the Author Series: Mattie Burkert
The R/18 Collective continues its Interview with the Author series in a conversation with Professor Mattie Burkert about her new book...
lfreeman51
Mar 12, 2022


A Feminist Utopia of the Senses? A Conversation on Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure
Event: A Feminist Utopia of the Senses? An open conversation with Misty G. Anderson and Kim Weild on Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of...
Misty Anderson
Nov 12, 2021

R/18 Interview with the Author Series: Laura Rosenthal
The R/18 Collective continues its Interview with the Author series in a conversation with Professor Laura Rosenthal about her new book...
lfreeman51
Nov 5, 2021


Inchbald Conference (8-9 Sept. 2022): Call for Papers!
Hot on the heels of our roundtable celebration of Elizabeth Inchbald (a recording of which is available on our YouTube channel), we're...
David Taylor
Aug 9, 2021


Celebrating Elizabeth Inchbald
Please join us on Monday 2nd August at 5pm (BST) for an online roundtable in celebration of Elizabeth Inchbald, who died 200 years ago on...
David Taylor
Jul 9, 2021

R/18 Interview with the Author Series: Ros Ballaster and Marcie Frank
What a pleasure it was to sit down earlier this year to interview Ros Ballaster and Marcie Frank as part of the second installment of the...
lfreeman51
Jun 25, 2021


ASECS Theatre and Performance Studies Caucus Presents!
The R/18 Collective is delighted to share the news with all those who are attending the ASECS conference that there will be a zoom...
lfreeman51
Apr 7, 2021

R/18 Roundtable on Messiah/Complex
UPDATE: you can now see a recording of the event on our YouTube channel here. And as an added bonus, Against the Grain Theatre has made...
ks3t66
Mar 18, 2021

“The Woman Hater” and “The Belle’s Stratagem” at Red Bull Theater
One of the few silver linings of this past year has been online access to “live” theater from far-flung places. There was, early on, the...
Wendy Arons
Mar 10, 2021
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