PAJ ACTIVITIES

Organization Profile PAJ was founded in 1976 by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta to support, promote, and publish important, original works in the field of the arts and the thoughtful critical thinking about them, to initiate new areas of scholarship and forms of critical commentary, and to provide an ongoing discourse between art, artists, and the public. The well-established activities of the not-for-profit press include the publishing of a journal devoted to artworks and critical writing, and the publishing of volumes of books on theatre, music, dance, and art world events. Performing Arts Journal Performing Arts Journal—now called PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art—is a triannual periodical. PAJ offers expanded coverage of performance, video, dance, drama, film, music, photography, installations and multimedia. Issues feature artists' writings, critical essays, historical documentation, interviews, performance texts and plays, reports on events abroad, and book reviews. A special section entitled "Art & Performance Notes" includes articles and reviews of current arts events, especially performance and museum/gallery shows. Now in its 24th year under the continuous editorship of Marranca and Dasgupta, the journal is published for PAJ by special arrangement with Johns Hopkins University Press Journals. To date, the journal has published sixty-four issues, with subscriptions and distribution worldwide and on the Web. PAJ Publications two years after the journal was launched PAJ began publishing books of plays and books of criticism or history. Before becoming an imprint of Johns Hopkins University Press in 1992, PAJ Publications had published eighty-five titles, of which half are still in print. (From 1986-89 PAJ also published fiction and garden/natural history titles which were distributed by Farrar Straus and Giroux.) Currently, Marranca and Dasgupta are the editors of PAJ Books, a new series published by Johns Hopkins University Press. More than forty titles have been published since 1992. In twenty-four years PAJ has been responsible for the publication of more than 900 plays and performance texts, translated from 20 languages. More than 500,000 PAJ books have been sold around the world. It is a pioneering force in arts publishing in the West, influencing the university curriculum, the field of performance scholarship and documentation, and the theatrical repertoire.   Major PAJ book publishing initiatives Art+Performance focuses on major contemporary figures whose work in performance, video,  installation, dance, music, and filmmaking explore the frontiers of performance, visual,  and electronic art. The heavily-illustrated volumes, edited by major critics, include a  selection of critical writing and interviews covering the artist's career, writings by the artist,   chronology, and bibliographic material. Wordplays ongoing collections of American plays and texts highlight new directions in writing  for performance. DramaContemporary the only series in the West devoted to new plays in translation, organized by country or region. Modernist Performance features texts and documents from the modern and avant-garde  European repertoire, covering major movements and artists, and linking the fields of  theatre, visual arts, and literature. Criticism/History volumes of criticism, historical studies, documents on 20th century  performance studies and the drama. Playscripts single volumes and anthologies of important plays by American authors and  dramatists from the world repertoire. Selected Awards and Honors to PAJ books and PAJ authors and editors Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Lee Breuer, Elizabeth LeCompte, Yvonne Rainer, Gary Hill:  MacArthur Awards Sam Shepard, James Lapine: Pulitzer Prize Elias Canetti, Joseph Brodsky: Nobel Prize for Literature Maria Irene Fornes, Mac Wellman: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest grants; multiple Obie Awards Obie Award to PAJ for "Outstanding Achievement in the Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway  Theatre" LeCompte du Nouy Award to PAJ editors for contributions to theatre Bonnie Marranca, Herbert Blau: George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard: "one of the outstanding academic books" of  the year (Choice) From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play, Victor Turner: "one of the outstanding  recent books in educational studies" Heiner Müller: the Büchner Prize, the Lessing Prize Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust, edited by Rebecca Rovit and Alvin Goldfarb ? 1999 Finalist of the Morris J. and Betty Kaplan Foundation Award, National Jewish Book Award

Plays/Performance Texts Published in Performing Arts Journal (now called PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art) since its founding in 1976. Editors: Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta Kathy Acker, Lulu (PAJ 30) Vasilii Aksyonov, Your Murderer (PAJ 4) Leonid Andreyev, Requiem (PAJ 16) Wolfgang Bauer, Shakespeare the Sadist (PAJ 7) Andrei Bely, The Jaws of Night (PAJ 8) Walter Benjamin, Lichtenberg: A Cross Section (PAJ 42) Shelley Berc, Dual Heads (PAJ 21) Sabina Berman, The Mustache (PAJ 59) Thomas Bernhard, The German Lunch Table (PAJ 16) ______________, The Hunting Party (PAJ 13) Edward Bond, Stone (PAJ 5) Howard Brenton, The Saliva Milkshake (PAJ 9) Velerii Briusov, The Wayfarer (PAJ 9) Joseph Brodsky, Democracy (PAJ 37) ____________, Democracy! Act II (PAJ 54) Mueen Bsissu, The Trial of the Book: Kalila and Dumna (PAJ 23) Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard, The War in Heaven (PAJ 26/27) Mikhail Chekhov, The Castle Awakens (PAJ 49) Isak Dinesen, The Revenge of Truth (PAJ 29) Maurice Donnay, Elsewhere (PAJ 32) Erik Ehn, The Saint Plays: Polio Comes from the Moon, Dashboard, Carrona (PAJ 44) Nikolay Evreinov, The Inspector General (PAJ 22) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Just a Slice of Bread (PAJ 56 Richard Foreman, The American Imagination (PAJ 10/11) Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends (PAJ 6) Janie Geiser, Evidence of Floods (PAJ 56) Janusz Glowacki, Journey to Gdansk (PAJ 17) Witold Gombrowicz, History (PAJ 58) Spalding Gray/Elizabeth LeCompte, Rumstick Road (PAJ 8) Vaclav Havel, Protest (PAJ 35/36) Eugene Ionesco, Maximilian Kolbe (PAJ 17) ____________, Scene (PAJ 24) William E. Jones, Finished (PAJ 59) Frigyes Karinthy, The Singing Lesson, Long War, The Magic Chair (PAJ 18) The Living Theatre, Prometheus (PAJ 14) Mina Loy, Two Plays, The Pamperers (PAJ 52) Michael McClure, The Masked Choir (PAJ 2) Charles L. Mee, The Constitutional Convention, The Sequel (PAJ 31) _______________, Orestes (PAJ 45) Heiner Muller, Hamletmachine (PAJ 12) __________, Dreamtext:The Night of the Directors (PAJ 52) Rochelle Owens, Emma Instigated Me (PAJ 1) James Purdy, Heatstroke (PAJ 59) Madame Rachilde, The Crystal Spider (PAJ 19) Yvonne Rainer, MURDER and murder (PAJ 55) Rachel Rosenthal, L.O.W. in Gaia (PAJ 30) Tadeusz Rozewicz, Birth Rate (PAJ 2) Will Scheffer, Falling Man and Other Monologues (PAJ 59) Theodora Skipitares, Under the Knife: A History of Medicine, (PAJ 53) Slobodan Snajder, Snakeskin (PAJ 60) Goran Stefanovski, Sarajevo (Tales from a City) (PAJ 47) Michel Vinaver, Dissident Goes Without Saying (PAJ 20) James Waring, Nights at the Tango Palace (PAJ 14) Mac Wellman, Terminal Hip (PAJ 30) Jean-Paul Wenzel, Far from Hagondange (PAJ 15) Gregory Whitehead, Dead Letters (PAJ 41) Robert Wilson, I Was Sitting On My Patio This Guy Appeared... (PAJ 10/11) Winter Project/The Other Theatre, Re-arrangements (PAJ 12) Susan Yankowitz, 1969 Terminal 1996 (PAJ 57) Chay Yew, Porcelain: A Voice Play (PAJ 48) Marguerite Yourcenar, The Little Mermaid (PAJ 17)

Selected List of 20th century Artists and Essayists Published or Interviewed in Performing Arts Journal since 1976. Umberto Eco Susan Sontag John Cage Edward Said  Robert Jay Lifton Slawomir Mrozek Czeslaw Milosz Theodor Adorno John Ashbery Richard Foreman Yvonne Rainer Philip Glass Stanley Kauffmann Pauline Kael Harold Clurman Gary Hill Charles Atlas Charles Ludlam Martin Esslin Moira Roth Sally Banes Elinor Fuchs Maria Irene Fornes Judith Malina Meredith Monk Carolee Schneemann Edwin Denby Richard Peaslee Matthew Yokobosky Laurie Anderson Marc Robinson Annette Michelson Johannes Birringer Vassily Aksyonov Yuri Lyubimov Gerald Rabkin Carl Weber Eric Bentley Gregory Whitehead Alisa Solomon Arnold Wesker Richard Schechner Edith Turner Erika Munk Bessie Schoenberg Kenneth Bernard Richard Schechner Tadeusz Kantor Rainer W. Fassbinder Krystof Zanussi Stanislaw Baranczak Ken Jacobs Bruce Baillie Nam June Paik Anna Deavere Smith Mike Kelley Matthew Ritchie Andrea Zittel Sam Shepard Spalding Gray Heiner Muller Herbert Blau Tadashi Suzuki Elizabeth LeCompte Anna Halprin Kenneth King David Vaughan Rober Brustein Rochelle Owens John Guare David Mamet Mac Wellman Allan Kaprow Dick Higgins Alison Knowles Eleanor Antin Rachel Rosenthal Augusto Boal John Bowlt Joseph Chaikin Daryl Chin Larry Qualls Antonin Artaud Eugene Ionesco Trisha Brown Douglas Dunn Edward Bond

PAJ BOOKS Complete List of PAJ titles published under the executive and general editorship of Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta who founded the press in 1976. PAJ books since 1992 published and distributed under the imprint of Johns Hopkins University Press. The PAJ Publications backlist is available at Theatre Communications Group.   ART+PERFORMANCE SERIES Meredith Monk  (ed. Deborah Jowitt). Rachel Rosenthal  (ed. Moira Roth). Richard Foreman (ed. Gerald Rabkin) Reza Abdoh (ed. Daniel Mufson) Yvonne Rainer Mary Lucier (ed. Melinda Barlow) Gary Hill (ed. Robert C. Morgan Mary Lucier (ed. Melinda Barlow) Bruce Nauman (ed. Robert Morgan)   AMERICAN PLAYS AND PERFORMANCE TEXTS American Melodrama (ed. Daniel Gerould). Harriet Beecher Stowe/George Aiken, Augustin Daly,  David Belasco, Dion Boucicault. American Popular Entertainments: A Collection of Jokes, Monologues & Comedy Routines (ed.  Brooks McNamara). Amorous Nightmares of Delay: Selected Plays, Frank O'Hara. An American Comedy and Other Plays, Richard Nelson. Animations: A Trilogy for Mabou Mines, Lee Breuer. Bad Infinity, The, Mac Wellman. Body Ascendant, Harold Segel California Gold-Rush Plays  (ed. Glenn Loney). Alonzo Delano, Charles E. B.Howe, Bret Harte. Cellophane, Mac Wellman Collective Consciousness: Art Performances/Art Shows in the Seventies, Jean Dupuy. Division Street and Other Plays, Steve Tesich. Fefu and Her Friends, Maria Irene Fornes. George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Edna Ferber,  John P. Marquand. Hawk Moon, Sam Shepard. History Plays, Charles L. Mee. Last Operas and Plays, Gertude Stein. Madame La Mort and Other Plays  (eds. Kiki Gounaridou and Frazer Lively). Madame Rachilde. Maria Irene Fornes: Plays, Maria Irene Fornes. Plays for the End of the Century (ed. Bonnie Marranca). Adrienne Kennedy, Reza Abdoh, Rachel  Rosenthal, Maria Irene Fornes, Erik Ehn, Shelley Berc, The Wooster Group, Richard  Foreman, Mac Wellman. Promenade and Other Plays, Maria Irene Fornes. Red Robins, The, Kenneth Koch. The Saint Plays, Erik Ehn Table Settings, James Lapine. Theatre of Images, The (ed. Bonnie Marranca). Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, Lee Breuer. Theatre of the Ridiculous (eds. Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta). Jack Smith, Kenneth  Bernard, Charles Ludlam, Ronald Tavel. Twelve Dreams, James Lapine. Women's Project 1 (ed. Julia Miles). Rose Leiman Goldemberg, Lavonne Mueller, Penelope  Gilliatt, Joyce Aaron, Joan Schenkar, et al. Women's Project 2 (ed. Julia Miles). Terry Galloway, Lavonne Mueller, Kathleen Collins, et al. Wordplays: New American Drama Series Wordplays 1. Maria Irene Fornes, Mac Wellman, Ronald Tavel, Richard Nelson, William  Hauptman, Jean-Claude van Itallie. Wordplays 2. Rochelle Owens, Wallace Shawn, Harry Kondoleon, John O'Keefe, Len Jenkin. Wordplays 3. Lee Breuer, Adrienne Kennedy, Eric Overmyer, Jane Martin, Richard Lees, Murray  Mednick. Wordplays 4. Thomas Babe, Charles L. Mee, Philip Bosakowski, Jeffrey Jones, JoAnne  Akalaitis. Wordplays 5. James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim, Kathy Acker, Des McAnuff, Jim Strahs, John  Jesurun. Wordplays 6. See Plays for the End of the Century. CRITICISM AND HISTORY Aboriginal Voices: Amerindian, Inuit, and Sami Theater (eds. Per Brask and William Morgan). Actor's Eye, The, Morris Carnovsky and Peter Sander. American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard (ed. Bonnie Marranca). Anthropology of Performance, Victor Turner. Beyond the Floating Islands, Eugenio Barba. Blooded Thought: Occasions of Theatre, Herbert Blau. Body Ascendant, The, Harold Segel Brecht Memoir, The, Eric Bentley. Conversations on Art and Performance, ed. Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta Dandyism, Barbey D'Aurevilly. Ecologies of Theater, Bonnie Marranca. End of Humanism, The, Richard Schechner. From Ritual to Play: The Human Seriousness of Play, Victor Turner. Geographical History of America, The, Gertrude Stein. Grotowski and His Laboratory, Zbigniew Osinski. Interculturalism and Performance (eds. Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta). Languages of the Stage: Essays in the Semiotics of Theatre, Patrice Pavis. Lessons for the Professional Actor, Michael Chekhov. Media and Performance, Johannes Birringer On Racine, Roland Barthes. Other American Drama, The, Marc Robinson. Sources: A Memoir, Uta Hagen. Theater of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius. Theater Criticisms, Stanley Kauffmann. Theatre, Aristocracy, and Pornocracy, Karl Toepfer. Theatrewritings, Bonnie Marranca. Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust, eds. Rebeca Rovit and Alvin Goldfarb Twentieth-Century Russian Drama, Harold B. Segel. PLAYS IN TRANSLATION Battle, The (ed. Carl Weber). Heiner Muller. Beelzebub Sonata : Plays, Essays, and Documents (ed. Daniel Gerould). Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz. Comedies and Proverbs (ed. David Sices). Alfred de Musset. Comedy of Vanity and Life-Terms, Elias Canetti. Enthusiasts, The, Robert Musil. Explosion of a Memory (ed. Carl Weber). Heiner Müller. Gallant and Libertine: Divertissements and Parades from 18th-Century France (ed. Daniel  Gerould). Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Jan Potocki, Thomas Gueullette. Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage (ed. Carl Weber). Heiner Müller. Lazzi: Comic Routines of the Commedia dell'Arte (ed. Mel Gordon). Marguerite Yourcenar: Four Plays, Marguerite Yourcenar. Ödön von Horváth: Plays, Ödön von Horváth. President and Eve of Retirement, The, Thomas Bernhard. Quest for an Island, Vassily Aksyonov Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Plays (ed. Denis Calandra). Rainer Wener Fassbinder. Russian Satiric Comedy (ed. Laurence Senelick). Babel, Krylov, Prutkov, Evreinov, Bulgakov,  Ilf and Petrov. Sicilian Comedies, Luigi Pirandello. Wedding, The, Elias Canetti. DramaContemporary Series DramaContemporary: Czechoslovakia (ed. Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz). Milan Kundera, Vaclav  Havel, Ivan Klima, Pavel Kohout, Pavel Landovsky, Milan Uhde. DramaContemporary: France (ed. Philippa Wehle). Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel  Vinaver, Enzo Corman, Gildas Bourdet, Jean-Claude Grumberg. DramaContemporary: Germany (ed. Carl Weber). Heiner Müller, George Tabori, Elfriede Jelinek,  Botho Strauss, Tankred Dorst, Georg Seidl. DramaContemporary: Hungary (ed. Eugene Brogyanyi). András Sütö, Géza Páskándi, István  Csurka, György Spiró, Mihály Kornis. DramaContemporary: Latin America (ed. Marion Peter Holt and George W. Woodyard). Carlos  Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Antonio Skarmeta, Manuel Puig. DramaContemporary: Scandinavia (ed. Per Brask). Olafur Haukur Simonarson, Tor Åge  Bringsvaerd, Ulla Ryum, Margarete Garpe, Jussi Kylätasku. DramaContemporary: Spain (ed. Marion Peter Holt). Antonio Buero-Vallejo, Jaime Salom,  Francisco Nieva, José Martín Recuerda. Modernist/Avant-Garde Performance (Historical) Cabaret Performance: 1890-1925, Volume I (ed. Laurence Senelick). Marinetti, Tzara, Hausmann,  Schwitters, Morgenstern, Donnay, Bruant, Cendrars, Evreinov, et al. Cabaret Performance: 1920-1940, Volume II (ed. Laurence Senelick). Cocteau, Gert, Valentin,  Tucholsky, Strindberg, Karinthy, Mann, et al. Dada and Surrealist Performance, Annabelle Melzer. Dada Performance (ed. Mel Gordon). Roussel, Huelsenbeck, Tzara, Ball, Schwitters, Breton,  Picabia, et al. Doubles, Demons, and Dreamers: A Collection of International Symbolist Drama (ed. Daniel  Gerould). Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Tagore,  Hofmannsthal,  Rachilde, Stevens, Andreyev,  Blok, et al. Expressionist Texts (ed. Mel Gordon). Kokoschka, Benn, Kaiser, Toller, Stramm, Schreyer,  Hasenclever. Futurist Performance, Michael Kirby. Marinetti, Russolo, Boccioni, Prampolini, et al. Pinocchio's Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant- Garde Drama, Harold Segel. Symbolist Theater: The Formation of an Avant-Garde, Frantisek Deak. Theater of the Bauhaus, The (ed. Walter Gropius). Film Anarchy of the Imagination, The, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Distinguishing Features, Stanley Kauffmann. Field of View: Film Criticism and Comment, Stanley Kauffmann. Regarding Film, Stanley Kauffmann Fragile Geometry: The Films, Philosophy, and Misadventures of Nicholas Roeg, Joseph Lanza. Tempest: A Screenplay, Paul Mazursky and Leon Capetanos. FICTION AND OTHER NON-ARTS TITLES (1986-89 ONLY) American Garden Writing (ed. Bonnie Marranca). Bad Guy, Rosalyn Drexler. Engleburt Stories, The, Samuel MacIntosh-Schechner and Richard Schechner. Gardener's Bed-Book, The, Richardson Wright. Gardener's Day Book, The, Richardson Wright. Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico. Intro. by John Ashbery. Madonna and Other Spectacles, Harold Jaffe. Maldive Chronicles, The, Kenneth Bernard. Mouchette, Georges Bernanos. Out of Sync, Richard Lees. Pious Dance, The, Klaus Mann. Plant Hunters, The, Tyler Whittle. Queer and Alone, James Strahs. Story of My Wife, The, Milán Füst. Intro. by George Konrad. PAJ titles Johns Hopkins Univ. Press Theatre Communications Group PAJ: A Journal; of Performance and Art