By Molly W. Schenck. US director and health and wellness educator Molly Schenck describes five useful rehearsal techniques for ensembles to adapt when creating work around difficult topics.
By Tammy Ryan. Playwright and professor Tammy Ryan explores three initiatives seeking to introduce historic and contemporary plays written by women (back) into the canon.
By Holly Sidford, Alexis Frasz. Holly Sidford and Alexis Frasz report on the National Playwright Residency Program, a program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-administered by…
By Yan Chen, Kit Yan. Yan Chen talks with poet, performer, and playwright Kit Yan about the intersections of genre and intersections of identity in his work.
By Alison Weller. Alison Weller reflects on the process of writing Boundless, a play about the fishing community in Cape Code.
By Peterson Toscano. Peterson Toscano describes his solo show Everything is Connected, which tackles religion, LGBTQ issues, privilege, and climate change.
By Aysan Celik. Aysan Celik talks about the ways she's found laughter to be a catalyst for honest conversations with her students about Climate Change.
By Chantal Bilodeau. Chantal Bilodeau kicks off this week's series on Theatre in the Age of Climate Change by suggesting that women in the arts may be our planet's best bet for survival.
By Sara Brookner, Lisa Kenner Grissom. For the fourth installment of the Chronic Theatremaker series, Sara Brookner interviews playwright Lisa Kenner Grissom about living with lupus and lear…
By Robert Duffley. Robert Duffley reflects on four shows from the 2017 Divine Theatre Comedy Festival in Kraków, Poland.
By Tiffany Antone. Playwright Tiffany Antone discusses Protest Play Projects, a new initiative that is organizing theatrical action around gun control.
By Kristin Marting. Artistic Director Kristin Marting discusses how developmental programs can better meet the needs of artists and shares best practices from HERE's multi-year artist reside…
By Anthony Dvarskas. Anthony Dvarskas discusses the process of researching and creating America is Hard to See , a documentary theatre piece detailing the lives of a small community of sex o…
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Amy Cook of Stony Brook University joins us to discuss her new book, Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting .
By Gary Sloan. "What are you going to do with the boys?" asked the deputy governor of the Northern Ireland Prison Service. "What's the workshop about? What do we tell them?" "Try acting for …
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell considers three plays that address black pain on stage.
By Catherine Trieschmann, Dan Kois. Catherine Trieschmann interviews Dan Kois, the co-author of an oral history of Angels in America .
By Jennifer Onopa, Rebecca Martinez, Nicole A. Watson, Sanaz Ghajar. Jennifer Onopa interviews Sanaz Ghajar, Rebecca MartÃnez, and Nicole A. Watson about their experience in the field as …
By Elizabeth Horn. Elizabeth Horn reflects on how in the aftermath of #MeToo, it is more important than ever to teach the next generation of theatremakers ideas of consent, respect, and how …
By Kaite O'Reilly. Kaite O'Reilly considers how Richard III has been portrayed on stage, the alignment of atypical embodiment with evil and suffering, and her inspiration with The Llana…
By Michael Lueger. Dr. Claudia Orenstein of Hunter College introduces us to the art of tolpavakoothu, a shadow puppet tradition from Kerala, in southern India.
By Amelia Parenteau, Elise Vigier. An interview with Elise Vigier who adapted James Baldwin's 1979 novel, Just Above My Head at the Maison des Arts de Creteil near Paris.
By Paul Gagliardi. An interview with Nancy Smith-Watson of Feast of Crispian and Tim Schleis, an army veteran and one of FOC's actors.
By David Valdes Greenwood. Playwright David Valdes Greenwood discusses the importance of writing more diverse and intersectional characters, and reflects on the conundrum of "color conscious…
By Jen Gushue. Jen Gushue reflects on the visceral work of Irish playwright Enda Walsh.
