Impacting Theatre Audiences

Dani Snyder-Young is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northeastern University, USA, and the author of Privileged Spectatorship: Theatrical Interventions in White Supremacy(2020).

This edited collection explores methods for conducting critical empirical research examining the potential impacts of theatrical events on audience members.

1 Contemporary Spectatorship Research 2 Key Methodological Concepts in Spectatorship Research 3 Participant Observation in Practice and Techniques for Overcoming Researcher Insecurity: A Case Study at the Deutsches Theater 4 Prioritizing Black Experience, or the Inevitability of Educating White Audiences: A Discourse Analysis 5 Interviewing Children about Theatre Performance 6 Hashtag Networks, "Live" Musicals, and the Social Media Spectator: Digital Theatre Audience Research Methods 7 Drafting Harlem, Revising Melodrama: Archival Insights into Audience Expectation 8 The Gaze Turned Inward: A Reflexive Autoethnographic Approach to Theatre Research 9 The Stony Silence: Negotiating Empathy and Audience Expectations in Solo Autoethnographic Performance in Audience Research 10 Touching Past Lives: The Limits of Evaluating Immersive Heritage Performance Audiences 11 Playing Ethnography: Participant Engagement in Role/Play 12 Public Facing Dramaturgy as Audience Research: An Interview with Martine Kei Green-Rogers 13 Theatre for Relationality: A Relational Approach to Design Research 14 Key Questions in Evaluating Audience Impact: A Mixed Methods Approach in Research-Based Theatre 15 (Ac)Counting for Change: A Quantitative Approach to Recognizing and Contextualizing Shifts in Spectatorial Thinking 16 Poetic Inquiry and/as Theatre Audience Research 17 Playful Research