This theater history course provides an overview of performance traditions from around the world, from the first written records to today. Through the analysis of plays, theory, historical records, and video documentation, students will explore different performance traditions, spaces, audiences, and technologies across cultures and eras throughout the world. This course will include primary sources, student-led discussion, and viewing of contemporary adaptations of historic performance on stage and on screen. At the end of this course, you will be better equipped to situate a performance in relation to its geographical and historical context, and to interrogate what the production reveals about this context. This course fulfills the theater history requirement for Lang Theater majors and minors.