Is theater an art? A medium? An institution? A little bit of everything, one could say. It has, at present as well as historically, a richness of facets like hardly any other art, institution, like hardly any other medium. Theater is a space for negotiation: a place and space of play that confronts the simultaneous with the non-simultaneous, the present with the historical, aesthetic convention and subversion, as well as conflicts - subjective, political, global. At least since the debates on theatricality, the studies on interculturality and intermediality, and the emergence of performance studies in the 1990s and 2000s, it has become clear that not only theater is multifaceted, but also the readings of the term itself. This multifacetedness and breadth of its subject matter keeps theater studies ever alive. The contributions in Theater-Wi.