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They employ experimental practices with straightforward agendas: they make art political and turn the political into art. They also seem to represent an increased interest in contemporary th…
This series on political ideologies in the theater grew out of Caleb Winebrenner's article responding to Daniel Jones' post . Each writer was invited to respond to the intersection of politi…
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…
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…
This week-long blog series on political ideologies in the theater grew out of Caleb Winebrenner's article responding to Daniel Jones' post . Each writer was invited to respond based upon the…
This post is the sixteenth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions an…
Beginning in late August and running through the end of September, the brave Rattlestick Theater in New York City will open and run"simultaneously"five Lucy Thurber plays in five separate sp…
Actor Lake Bell has been making the press rounds promoting her new indie movie, In a World ... , about a female voice over actor whose gender (and father) have kept her from achieving the sa…
When I was asked to write this blog, I did not estimate how difficult it would be to respond to gun control and how it connects to the artistic community. Gun Control Theatre Action . Swirli…
On the face of it, "other white men" isn't a topic you'd necessarily expect an innovative young director and devised theater practitioner like Paula Jo Maske to devote an extensive amount of…
When Caridad Svich proposed a Gun Control Theatre Action in January, I was skeptical. At the time, I was preoccupied as a research volunteer to the March on Washington for Gun Control . For …
"Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization's radical voice." so said singer, actor, social activist, lawyer and athlete, the great Paul Robeson. Robeson may not have been th…
On October 15, 2011, I attend an Occupy Protest on the Streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico. We are effectively shut down by the cops, but not before I could see how many in my community stand…
Avignon, France. July 25, 2013. No one can comprehend the pain of another, and no one can comprehend the joy of another. One is always going towards another, but is never going beside anothe…
I had offered to host Caridad Svich's Gun Control Theatre Action in New York City after the project"which coincided with the March on Washington for Gun Control"had successfully concluded in…
No one prepares you for how sad life gets. People you love start dying like crazy. Better to be miserable from the word go. Arm yourself for sorrow. This is something Julie Harris would have…
I don't know how to begin this, because my uncle is sick. He's fighting cancer and it's a very big uphill battle. Yesterday I sent him one of my funny monologues in hopes of making him laugh…
This summer I have returned to Edinburgh after a fifteen-year hiatus, to spend two weeks immersed in the theater performances of the fringe festival . I plan to use these dispatches to share…
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…
This blog series focuses on personal perspectives from a select group of practitioners on theater and social change, the nature of artistic efficacy, and on past and ongoing gun control thea…
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. Our writer is flying in from America. H…
And so Shakespeare & Company has decided to present the history cycle, and Artistic Director Tony Simotes is jocund in announcing the decision. When a theater company chooses its season,…
Three works of the Lisbon-based filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes were shown at the MIT List Center throughout May and June. All three are worth something, but I want to concentrate here on one pie…
(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 …
Atlanta can get hot this time of year, but for the past three summers, dancers in the Atlanta-based company gloATL have hit the streets and public spaces of the city for "Liquid Culture," a …
