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Abstract
This year saw the continued expansion of four vibrant conversations within the field of theater and performance studies. The first section of this review, 'World Stages and Their Borders', features scholarship that explores how theaters represent worlds beyond the nation's territorial and symbolic boundaries. The second section, 'Performing Critical Temporalities', considers studies of minoritarian performance that engage with the lived experience of time. In the third section, 'Theater After Liveness', I discuss scholarship on modern drama that is in dialogue with theories of performance as a live event. A fourth section considers new works on the nineteenth-century theater, showing how 'Celebrity, Publicity, and Amateurism' are entwined. Finally, a brief concluding note outlines significant biographies and reference works released within the past year.

Abstract
The year 2018 was an especially fruitful and wide-ranging one for theater and performance studies. Several major monographs deepened discussion in established subject areas within the field, while new methodological approaches emerged, opening fresh directions in scholarship. This review focuses on four major areas of conversation that shaped the field in 2018: 1. Expanding Performance Aesthetics; 2. Economic and Material Contexts of Performance; 3. Enacting Public Justice; and 4. Performance on the Move.