The MLA Drama and Performance Forum is currently accepting proposals for the two panels it is sponsoring for the 2026 conference in Toronto: https://www.mla.org/Events/2026-MLA-Convention.

Crowd Work: Audiences in Drama and Performance

How do drama and performance engage audiences as spectators and participants? What work does the audience do and how is it negotiated across local, transnational, economic, generic, or mediatized performance and reception contexts?

Please submit brief bios and 200-word proposals.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 21 March 2025

Sarah Balkin, U of Melbourne sarah.balkin@unimelb.edu.au

Aparna Dharwadker adharwadker@wisc.edu

Tuneful Resemblances: Rethinking the Broadway Musical and the World

How has the Broadway musical continued to emerge through global migrations and cross-genre interactions? How has it been reimagined as it has traveled across the world? 

Please submit brief bios and 200-word proposals.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 21 March 2025

Scott Poulson-Bryant, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor (scottpb@umich.edu) Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, U of Milan (ertug.altinay@unimi.it)