中国话剧理论与历史研究会名誉会长田本相教授,根据近四五年来在京、津、沪等大城市,大量外国戏剧来华演出的现象,提出“新时期戏剧二度西潮”的概念(新时期戏剧的第一度西潮,是上个世纪80年代,在改革开放中,引进外国戏剧的浪潮)。在他的建议和倡导下,2016年3月18—20日,由中国话剧理论与历史研究会和上海戏剧学院联合主办,中国艺术研究院话剧研究所、中国传媒大学戏剧 According to the phenomenon that a large number of foreign theaters came to China in the past four or five years in major cities such as Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, he proposed that “the second wave of drama in the new era” (The first wave of drama in the new era was the wave of introducing foreign drama in the 1980s in the course of reform and opening up). Under his proposal and advocacy, from March 18 to 20, 2016, co-sponsored by the Chinese Theater Theory and History Research Association and the Shanghai Theater Academy, the Drama Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, the Communication University of China drama