A Conversation with Niegel Smith
By Kristin Marting. On 21 September 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the award winning theatre director and performance artist Niegel Smith.
By Kristin Marting. On 21 September 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the award winning theatre director and performance artist Niegel Smith.
By . The September convening in Boston is hosted by Company One Theatre, and co-produced with Boston Public Library, and Doris Duke Foundation.
By Thea Rodgers. This skills session enables participants to take immediate actions and understand the larger commitments and investments artists can make to ensure digital privacy.
By . A one-time retrospective of seven recorded performances from this year's Roma Heroes International Theater Festival in Budapest, Hungary.
By . Join Mosaic Theater Company of Washington, D.C., sharing four artistic reflections on living and creating in D.C.
By Marjan Moosavi. Touch of Slavery guided audiences through the lives of five Black Deafblind enslaved individuals in the antebellum South.
By Madison LeFever. Madison Joy LeFever rejects widespread reluctance to stage multidimensional fat characters who engage the full spectrum of human experience.
By Kristin Marting. On 14 September 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with multihyphenate Abigail Gampel.
By Artist Caregiver. This month’s artist caregiver misses Shabbat dinner with her husband and children, so she brings challah to share at tech.
By . The Carnaval serves as an intervention to combat the patterned absence of authentic representation by uplifting Latinx musical theatre writers, composers, lyricists, directors, and musi…
By Shailee Rajak. Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink, conceived by Joti Singh, draws on the revolutionary history of the Ghadar Party.
By . This panel explores the community need that led to the creation of the Actor Training Laboratorio in Community, a Latinx Theatre Commons initiative focused on rethinking actor training …
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By Kristin Marting. On 31 August 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with award-winning choreographer Annie-B Parson. Annie B is artistic director of the award winning Big Dance Thea…
By Kristin Marting. On 24 August 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the provocative award-winning multidisciplinary artist Aaron Landsman, who is also the founder of Perfect Ci…
By Kristin Marting. On 17 August 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with award winning theatremaker Melanie Joseph. She founded and led the Foundry Theatre for 25 years.
By Verda Tunaligil, MD, MPH, PhD. Esen Özman’s Medea’s Head, which premiered in İstanbul last December, is a distinct departure from earlier adaptations of the classic play. Dr.
By Ryan Nock. More than thirty years after the Women’s Coalition for Change undertook a radical activist performance at the University of Maryland, a documentary screening and panel discus…
By . This session from the 2026 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference brought the academic world and the professional world together to discuss how the industry is ch…
By Anna Kozachok. During wartime, everything changes—including a theatrical curriculum.
By Nicolas Shannon Savard, Des Bennett. Host Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews Des Bennett of The Theater Offensive about the Queer (Re)Public Emergent Artist Residency.
By . Join our international guest artists and local community leaders for three exciting panels that discuss the festival’s themes from the perspective of literature, local traditions and …
By Beks Roen. Beks Roen, a nonbinary, aromantic, asexual actor who often performs in Shakespearen plays, reflects on how they have made space for their identities in classical theatre and of…
By Michael Rohd, Coya Paz, Irina Kruzhilina. Theatremaker Michael Rohd speaks with two artists and cultural leaders who deploy theatre to build coalitions and center what’s possible: Irina…
By Sophia Skiles, Jasmin Cardenas, Caroline Hatem, Marta Górnicka. Through the use of story and song with communities in crisis, artists Jasmin Cardenas, Marta Górnicka, and Caroline Hate…