5th International Conference on American Drama and Theater

Migrations.
Theatrical migrations understood both literally and figuratively.

Real migrations and migrations as a trope.
Stylistic migrations and cross-hybridization between formats.
Transnational studies of American drama.
Foreign playwrights in America and hyphenated American playwrights.

Multiculturalism as migration.
US drama abroad and foreign drama in the US.

The migration of cultures on stage.
World realities on the US stage. America on the world's stage.

Mainstream playwrights migrating to the fringe.

Fringe playwrights reaching the mainstream.Crossings between theatrical milieus.
Broadway migrating from Broadway.

The emergence of Off and Off-Off Broadway and the regional theater movement.

Bodies, trauma, gender, and identity.
Migrations from one's sense of self and the corporeality of migrations.
Intertextuality, transmedia, and intercultural exchanges. Migrating texts.