This pivot offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from local and global Asian and Asian American Theater, to Opera, Film, Dance, and Musical Theatre. It examines theatre performing arts and film in terms of aesthetics, gender studies, and identity politics at a time of tremendous change in the era of robotics and artificial intelligence, and showcases the irresistible value of human accomplishments in theatre and film and their representative artistic works. It also addresses key issues within performance studies, such as gender, class, race, ethnicity, identity, theatricality, cultural mobility and aesthetics, and considers how minorities portray their ethnicity stories, such as for instance case studies of Hakka performance and film. As the boundaries within and between nation-states continue to blur and as information and communication speed up, this book links the trans-national and the trans-local and considers how emerging mobile geographies and new methodologies of interpreting performance in theatre and film reflect the transformations of our understanding of geopolitical time and space.