Nontraditional casting (Performing arts)

found: Work cat.: Colorblind Shakespeare : new perspectives on race and performance, 2006.

found: Barranger, M.S. Theatre, 2006:p. 302 (Nontraditional casting involves casting actors in roles for which they might not have been considered in the past for reasons of ethnicity, gender, or physical impairment)

found: Theatre appreciation terms, via WWW, May 2, 2008(Nontraditional casting -- Choosing the most talented actor for a part regardless of the actor's race, gender, physical condition, or cultural heritage)

found: Representing women, 1994:p. 32 (The Non-Traditional Casting Project defines four types of nontraditional casting: (1) societal, in which nonwhite and/or female actors are cast in roles of characters with their ethnicity or sex; (2) cross-cultural, which transposes an entire play to a different culture; (3) conceptual, which casts an ethnic, female, or disabled actor in a role to give it greater resonance; (4) casting of the best actor for the role even if this departs from the script)

found: Department of Theatre Arts, the University of Iowa WWW home page, May 2, 2008:auditions (Nontraditional casting is the norm for all directors in all productions, except those in which race, gender, handicap, or age is the explicit issue. Casting is non-traditional when all roles in a script are open to casting without bias in terms of race, gender, handicap, or age, so long as the actor can fulfill the artistic requirements of the role)