Charlotte Canning's guest appearances

Charlotte Canning

Why I‘ll Never Make It

The Theatre History Podcast

Chris Coyne

Caitlin Kinnunen

Kathryn Allison

Kelvin Moon Loh

Bret Shuford

Gabrielle Ruiz

Mara Davi

Damian Thompson

Robert Davis

James White

Isaac Butler

Bryan Doerries

Rebecca Luker

Jerry Mitchell

Carmen Cusack

OwlTail

British historian and philosopher R.G. Collingwood said, "History is for human self knowledge, the only clue to what men can do is what man has done. So with an ongoing pandemic and theaters shut down for the foreseeable future, what can history teach us about dealing with such hardships and what to expect going forward? That’s what we’ll be exploring in this episode with Professor Charlotte Canning, Ph.D, a theatre and performance historian at the University of Texas at Austin. Topics discussed in this epiosde: Actor's Equity First Strike - American Theatre  Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider  Shakespeare and the Plague - The New Yorker  "Finding Hope in Theatre That Hasn’t Happened Yet: How to Survive a Global Pandemic" - Sight Lines  Is Merchant of Venice Anti-Semitic? - Smithsonian Magazine  Our Students Are Depending on Us - The Atlantic   For Part 2 of my conversation with Charlotte, go to donate.winmipodcast.com for access to this special episode.  ---------- All music underscoring and segues by Blue Dot Sessions, except for WINMI intro music by Patrick Oliver Jones and "Smooth Actor" by Podington Bear. All licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

British historian and philosopher R.G. Collingwood said, "History is for human self knowledge, the only clue to what men can do is what man has done. So with an ongoing pandemic and theaters shut down for the foreseeable future, what can history teach us about dealing with such hardships and what to expect going forward? That’s what we’ll be exploring in this episode with Professor <a href="https://theatredance.utexas.edu/people/canning-charlotte" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charlotte Canning</a>, Ph.D, a theatre and performance historian at the University of Texas at Austin. Topics discussed in this epiosde: Actor's Equity First Strike - <a href="https://www.americantheatre.org/2013/03/01/when-actors-equity-staged-its-first-strike/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">American Theatre</a> Katherine Anne Porter’s <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/pale-horse-pale-rider-plague-book-coronavirus.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pale Horse, Pale Rider</a> Shakespeare and the Plague - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-shakespeare-actually-wrote-about-the-plague" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The New Yorker</a> "Finding Hope in Theatre That Hasn’t Happened Yet: How to Survive a Global Pandemic" - <a href="https://sightlinesmag.org/finding-hope-in-theatre-that-hasnt-happened-yet-how-to-survive-a-global-pandemic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sight Lines</a> Is Merchant of Venice Anti-Semitic? - <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-scholars-still-debate-whether-or-not-shakespeares-merchant-venice-anti-semitic-180958867/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Smithsonian Magazine</a> Our Students Are Depending on Us - <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/equitable-2020/our-students-are-depending-us/3460/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Atlantic</a> <ul> <li>For Part 2 of my conversation with Charlotte, go to <a href="https://ko-fi.com/Blog/Post/Charlotte-Canning-PART-2-L4L32GSVN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">donate.winmipodcast.com</a> for access to this special episode.</li> </ul> ---------- All music underscoring and segues by Blue Dot Sessions, except for WINMI intro music by Patrick Oliver Jones and "Smooth Actor" by Podington Bear. All licensed under an <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Attribution-NonCommercial License</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Charlotte Canning, PhD - The History of Pandemics and Theater Closings

We tend to think of the middle of the twentieth century as a litany of horrors, from the trenches of the First World War and the atrocities of the Second to the fear of nuclear annihilation that came with the early decades of the Cold War. However, as Dr. Charlotte Canning of the University of Texas at Austin chronicles in her new book, On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism, there were also plenty of theatre artists during this time who believed that they could bring about a better future by sharing their work with the world.

We tend to think of the middle of the twentieth century as a litany of horrors, from the trenches of the First World War and the atrocities of the Second to the fear of nuclear annihilation that came with the early decades of the Cold War. However, as Dr. Charlotte Canning of the University of Texas at Austin chronicles in her new book, On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism, there were also plenty of theatre artists during this time who believed that they could bring about a better future by sharing their work with the world.

Episode 18: Dr. Charlotte Canning on Internationalism and US Theatre