49 stories by "Guesteditor"
Reflecting on the summer 2026 issue, executive director Alisha Tonsic imagines a brighter collective future for the theatre field by looking back on our past.
Katie Ka Vang’s play about a historic Twin Cities immigrant community became more timely than anticipated when their state was violently occupied.
The National Endowment for the Arts has survived decades of attacks and cuts, even two Trump elections. But at what cost?
The writer of ‘Meet the Cartozians’ chats with her leading actress about the history behind the play, the complicated effects of assimilation, and Armenian pride and trauma.
A vital yet often-overlooked disability-rights protest in San Francisco in 1977 is musicalized at Denver's Phamaly Theatre Company.
A year after the Los Angeles wildfires, the playwright reflects on community and responsibility with 'The People of Pompeii.'
The articles in our Summer 2026 issue are underpinned by questions about who we’ve been—and who we might yet become.
For our guest columnist’s final column (for now), she reconnects with past students and asks teachers how they’re educating a new generation.
MILCK's first musical at La Jolla Playhouse this summer can't keep quiet, telling the story of an Asian American singer/songwriter with some unresolved trauma.
The history of live performance on this continent has been about art, commerce, innovation, stereotyping, and the breaking of stereotypes—i.e., messy democracy in action.
For theatre teachers, summer is the time to inhale, recharge, and remember what it’s like to be a student.
A new bio-musical at Arena Stage throws it back to the ’90s with the groundbreaking girl group TLC.
A roundup of the countless projects celebrating America's 250th birthday this summer and beyond.
Sarah Gancher's hootenanny-inspired, Arkansas-set adaptation of 'Eugene Onegin' gets the Rachel Chavkin immersive treatment at TheatreSquared.
Why the theatre industry’s new-play push hasn’t improved the playwrights’ lot.
As several instructive case studies show, hope springs eternal for today's theatremakers, even amid steep challenges.
Participating in poetry is key in Carissa Atallah's new play about a DACA college student that takes inspiration from spoken-word competitions.
A conversation about abolition, family, and how to hold the past in the present.
One of three plays in InterAct Theatre Company's Philly Cycle, 'Seng's Hair Salon' blends salon life, unaddressed trauma, and inspiration from Philly's Southeast Asian communities.
Poised between island and mainland, Boricua artists create work that feels like home wherever they are.
The Dallas-based playwright and theatre leader has an eye and ear for detail, including in his new play about Malcolm X and Redd Foxx.
Yosimar Reyes's new play at Teatro Visión in San Jose explores the inter-generational defenses of Latine folks targeted by ICE raids.
A new musical about a gay teen's coming-out journey premieres at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City.
Theatres across Minnesota have closed for the day during the state's general strike against ICE's violence.
At Atlanta's Theatrical Outfit, playwright Steve Yockey tells a new horror comedy about a couple caught between classes.
