The play is set in Nabers' hometown of Houston, just after Hurricane Katrina sent a flood of mostly Black refugees to seek shelter there in 2005. Racial anxieties simmer and bubble, as the c…
The Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson:The World On Stage present a panel discussion on the presence of race and class disparities in media respon…
The Weekly Howl is a peer produced, open access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thurs…
ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage , Boston presents The Impact of the Media on Survivors of Trauma" a conversation with PJ Paparelli, the co-writer and director of columbinus , Betty Shoels, a…
We all want to be makers. And the biggest miscalculation of the not-for-profit arts institution in building its infrastructure is its belief that some people make things and some people just…
Analyzing data would let us give audiences, in other words, what they really want, not what they say they want. It would let us look at people's cravings and aspirations and desires and sele…
One of the hardest tasks for me to perform as a dramaturg is relinquishing my work to an audience. I've known the time was coming; I've been working towards that first read-through for month…
One board chair commented, "We cast the board like you cast a play: diversity of skills, people who get the mission, people who have a relationship with the theater."
The Minnesota Fringe (MN Fringe) Festival is the largest nonjuried festival in the United States where this year an estimated 16,493 people were in attendance. Every applicant pays a non-ref…
There is a growing recognition that the more board members are engaged and exposed to the artistic life of the theater, the more effective they are as board members, and the more able they a…
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which was livestreamed for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV network at howlr…
Why are so few boards taking advantage of the powerful legitimacy of their governance role to provide proactive leadership to their organizations by engaging in the generative work that is a…
O'Rowe's play, which is set in Dublin, premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 2007, as Ireland, too, was "perching precarious." The Celtic Tiger era, which began in 1994, was both at its height a…
I'd love to hear your thoughts on credibility and how you see that playing a role in your work as artists. For those at larger, established theatres, do your efforts to position yourself to …
There has been much talk in recent years about the lack of "diversity" in American theater. This four part series is meant to redefine the conversation in a way that will move us past the bu…
Teo: So we can't be squeaky clean in everything we do, but I think that what Will said about moving with integrity is the best that we can do and that's all that we can do.. Just like in our…
This three-part series chronicles the musings of a twenty-something college grad making theater in London, trying to figure out what to bring home.
I suppose I expected a lot of adversarial reactions to proposing a libertarian working in community theater (similar to the adversarial reactions I had gotten in person). Instead, I've been …
On a bare stage, in costumes that hugged every curve, we seemed to invite and demand that the girls' bodies be the center of every moment. I was horrified. I questioned whether the performan…
(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has …
As the Boston Mayoral campaign prompts a citywide discussion of Boston's priorities and needs, the arts, culture, and creative community is poised to bring attention to the issues of our sec…
Underground practice harasses geography. A counter-culture, if it is healthy, refigures the landmarks and locations of its city. For a certain group, it manages to pull the heightened focus …
that socially engaged libertarians can utilize civic practice. I now realize the flaw in my argument was its specificity: anyone with the grievance and spirit can and should use her dramatic…
Are theater marathons turning into a kind of Ironman Triathlon Theater? Consider: *In All The Faces of the M oon at the Public Theater, Mike Daisey will deliver a different new monologue sta…
To the extent that politics puts particular policies into effect that govern our lives, art that publicly envisions alternative arrangements of power is political. But what one imagines coul…