{"id":123,"date":"2021-04-19T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T22:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T22:35:17","slug":"highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Most Recent Posts <\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates aligncenter wp-block-latest-posts\">\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/congratulations-professor-nikki-yeboah\/\">Congratulations Professor Nikki Yeboah!<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-08-04T14:42:53-07:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 4, 2022<\/time>\n<div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Nikki won ATHE&#8217;s 2022 very prestigious and competitive Outstanding Article Award&nbsp;for her&nbsp;Theatre Journal&nbsp;article&nbsp;\u201cAll the Nation\u2019s a Stage: The Ghana National Theatre as Sankofa Praxis.&#8221; More&nbsp;here. AND Nikki is featured in a recent&nbsp;Seattle Times&nbsp;article about playwrights! https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/theater\/what-does-it-take-to-support-seattles-playwrights\/ Congratulations&nbsp;Nikki!!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/book-interview-london-in-a-box\/\">Book Interview &#8211; London in a Box<\/a><time datetime=\"2021-06-14T14:51:14-07:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 14, 2021<\/time>\n<div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The true cultural tipping point in the run-up to the American Revolution, writes University of Washington drama professor&nbsp;Odai Johnson&nbsp;in his new book, might not have been the Boston Tea Party, the British naval blockade or even the&nbsp;First Continental Congress. Rather, Johnson suggests in \u201cLondon in a Box: Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America,\u201d it was&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/news-article\/\">News Article<\/a><time datetime=\"2021-06-14T13:51:20-07:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 14, 2021<\/time>\n<div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dr. Stefka Mihaylova was interviewed for an article in the Seattle Times about this generation of Theater Artists and how COVID-19 has affected them. Theater has a history of adapting to major crises by reinventing itself, notes Stefka Mihaylova, assistant professor of theater history and performance theory at UW School of Drama. Theater reinvented itself&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/book-interview\/\">Book Interview &#8211; Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism<\/a><time datetime=\"2021-06-14T13:35:43-07:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 14, 2021<\/time>\n<div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">University of Washington drama professor&nbsp;Scott Magelssen&nbsp;explores American aviation from the perspective of performance studies in his new book \u201cPerforming Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism,\u201d published this summer by University of Michigan Press. \u201cI began to realize the important role of performance in legitimizing to American legislators and taxpayers the enormous expenditures involved in&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/thoughts-on-zoom-performances\/\">Thoughts on Zoom Performances<\/a><time datetime=\"2021-05-18T17:02:11-07:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 18, 2021<\/time>\n<div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Performance happens all the time so why not on Zoom or other Video conference software.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video<\/h2>\n<p>A Day in the Life of a UW Drama PhD Student.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Day in the Life of a UW Drama PhD Student\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tj6lMQpzQpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Archive Posts<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-archives-list wp-block-archives\">\n<li><a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/2022\/08\/'>August 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/2021\/06\/'>June 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/2021\/05\/'>May 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Recent Posts Video A Day in the Life of a UW Drama PhD Student. 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