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By . Join South Coast Repertory for the Playwrights Panel, part of the 2026 Pacific Playwrights Festival.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Heather Rastovac Akbarzadeh. This episode explores how Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian folklore and performance create joy, belonging, and…
By Artist Caregiver. After moving his family cross-country to be closer to other relatives, this month’s diarist is balancing especially full home and work calendars.
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson, Sahar Assaf. This episode is a deep dive into Golden Thread's evolution.
By Dmitrii Zenkov. To make theatre with forced migrants in Serbia, Dmitrii Zenkov knew he had to slow down.
By . Seth Baumrin presents the lecture "The Kharkiv Dramaturgy"Fortitude and Democracy in Ukrainian Modern Theatre".
By McClain Leong. Through creative captions, the access tool of captioning becomes a design element with its own dramaturgical perspective.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Yussef El-Guindi. Playwright Yussef El Guindi reflects on Golden Thread's pivotal second decade; writing in the post-9/11 landscape; and how Middle Eastern, …
By Kristin Marting. On 27 April 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with theatre and film director, video and sound artist, and performing arts curator Brian Rogers.
By Kristin Marting. On 20 April 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with multi-hypenates Purva Bedi and Mariana Newhard. Both are acclaimed writer performers who have worked in theat…
By Chantal Bilodeau. Chantal Bilodeau reflects on a decade of curating the Theatre in the Age of Climate Change series and the ways the work (and world) has shifted in that time.
By Amanda L. Andrei. Amanda L. Andrei crossed continents to see Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo's Chapter II: The Brotherhood in search of transformation.
By Kristin Marting. On 13 April 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the award-winning director and founder and artistic director of Elevator Repair Service, one of the most accl…
By Torange Yeghiazarian, Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson. This episode is a deep dive into the founding of Golden Thread Productions with founding artistic director Torange Yeghiazarian"tracing…
By Kate Brennan, Rachel Anderson-Rabern, David Lee White. Technological innovation is outpacing labor protections, and theatre is not immune to this phenomenon.
By Bayan Shbib. The Writing the Future workshop intended to create space where young Palestinian theatremakers' could articulate their own precarity through monologue and solo performance.
By Kristin Marting. On 6 April 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the incomparable performance artist and cabaret singer Joey Arias.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson. Marina and Nabra take a sweeping look at thirty years of Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian theatre in the United States"from Golden Thread's…
By . Join us for a conversation about creating theatre across borders, its challenges and possibilities, and imagine with us a global community that crosses oceans and continents to produce …
By Dorcy Rugamba . Dorcy Rugamba advocates for a theatre that enables us to embrace other histories and draw on the full breadth of human experience in order to adopt a universal perspectiv…
By Kristin Marting. On 30 March 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the awe-inspiring, award-winning composer and performer Heather Christian, who was most recently recognized w…
By Jan Cohen-Cruz. Contributors share final reflections on the attraction of prison theatre workshops.
By Kristin Marting. On 23 March 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with creators Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobelle.
By Artist Caregiver. This month's diarist has been navigating government healthcare for his mother and grandmother, which requires relentless advocacy and follow-through.
By Emily K. Harrison. Is there space for hope in climate crisis theatre? What happens when teachers are just as terrified as their students? These questions and others reverberate through Em…
