Theatre and Performance Studies

Theatre and Performance Studies examines how live events — from scripted plays to immersive installations to community-based applied theatre — create meaning, shape identity, and enact social change. Scholars in this area treat performance not only as an art form but as a fundamental mode of human behavior, asking how bodies, spaces, and audiences together produce cultural and political reality. Current research pushes into questions about what immersive and participatory formats do to the boundary between performer and spectator, and how theatrical practices travel across cultures and histories without flattening local meaning. The field draws on literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, and education to understand why some performances leave audiences transformed while others leave them merely entertained.

Works

144,592

Total citations

309,323

Keywords

TheatrePerformance ArtDrama EducationCultural PracticeAudience ExperienceApplied Theatre