Past Conferences & Symposia

Last updated: June 22nd, 2026

Past Conferences

• ASTR/TLA 2018 Conference
  Arousal: Theatre, Performance, Embodiment
  University of California San Diego // 2018 Forum (La Jolla)
  November 15–18, 2018
• ASTR/TLA 2017 Conference
  Extra/Ordinary Bodies: Interrogating the Performance and Aesthetics of “Difference”
  Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia
  November 16-19, 2017
• ASTR/TLA 2016 Conference
  60th Anniversary: “Trans–”
  Minneapolis Marriott City Center
  November 3–6, 2016
• ASTR/TLA 2015 Conference
  Debating the Stakes in Theater and Performance Scholarship
  Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront
  November 5–8, 2015
• ASTR/TLA 2014 Conference
  What Performs?
  Debating the Stakes in Theater and Performance Scholarship
  Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
  November 20–23, 2014
• ASTR/TLA 2013 Conference
  You Are Here – The Post-Thematic Conference
  Fairmont Dallas Hotel
  November 7–10, 2013
• ASTR/TLA 2012 Conference
  Theatrical Histories
  Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel
  November 1–4, 2012
• ASTR/TLA 2011 Conference
  Economies of Theatre
  Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth Hotel
  November 17–20, 2011
• ASTR/TLA 2004 Conference
  Accounting for Taste
  Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
  November 18–21, 2004
• ASTR/TLA 2003 Conference
  Documenting the Performance / Performing the Document
  Durham Marriott at the Civic Center
  November 20–23, 2003
• ASTR/TLA 2002 Conference
  Theatre and Material Culture
  The Westin Philadelphia
  November 14–17, 2002
• ASTR/TLA 2001 Conference
  Rethinking the Real
  DoubleTree Hotel
  November 15–18, 2001
• ASTR/TLA 1994 Conference
  Theatre in Crisis / Theatre of Crisis
  Milford Plaza Hotel
  November 17–20, 1994
• ASTR/TLA 1993 Conference
  Culture and Performance
  New Orleans, Louisiana
  November 11–14, 1993
• ASTR/TLA 1992 Conference
  Theatre and the Visual Arts
  Newport Marriott Hotel
  November 20–22, 1992
• ASTR/TLA 1991 Conference
  Theatre and the Historical Change
  Glenn Hughes Playhouse at the University of Washington – Seattle, Washington
  November 14–17, 1991
• ASTR/TLA 1984 Conference
  Revivals, Revisions and Redactions
  Indiana University
  November 15–18, 1984
• ASTR/TLA 1983 Conference
  Spectacle
  Radio City Music Hall and the Gramercy Park Hotel
  November 17–20, 1983
• ASTR/TLA 1982 Conference
  The Nineteenth-Century Theatre
  Isabelle Russek Leeds Theatre at Brown University
  November 19–21, 1982

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Past Symposia

• TLA Symposium IV
  Fringe Festivals: Live Theatre on the Edge
  Judson Memorial Church in New York City
  New York, New York
  October 13, 2016
• TLA Symposium III
  Holding Up the Mirror: Authenticity and Adaptation in Shakespeare Today
  The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  New York, New York
  April 22, 2011
• TLA Symposium II
  Performance Reclamation: Research, Discovery, and Interpretation
  New York University
  New York, New York
  February 16, 2007
• TLA Symposium I
  Performance Documentation and Preservation in an Online Environment
  The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  New York, New York
  October 10, 2003