A Slam Play in ‘Brown Face’
Participating in poetry is key in Carissa Atallah’s new play about a DACA college student that takes inspiration from spoken-word competitions.
Stories by Gabriela Furtado Coutinho
Gabriela Furtado Coutinho is the digital editor of American Theatre, as well as an actor, playwright, and poet based in Chicago. She guest lectures at her alma mater Northwestern University and feels grateful for previous work with The Kennedy Center and Emmy’s / Television Academy. She creates and laughs across three native languages. (Photo by Joe Mazza / Brave Lux Inc.)
Evan Yionoulis on the Sanctity of Theatre at Juilliard, Yale, and Beyond
The renowned director and acting teacher discusses her transition into a new academic and artistic institution.
AGUARDIENTE, a Sensory Experience
GALA Hispanic’s new musical celebrating friendship and art aims to immerse audiences in the languages, rhythms, and smells of Latine and Caribbean homes.
Bad Bunny and Latinx Theatre Commons Start Storytelling From the Beginning
Between the Super Bowl’s theatrical catharsis and LTC’s Actor Training Laboratorio, this late winter and early spring have offered beautiful instruction on returning to roots and authenticity.
‘Darling’ Chooses a New Adventure
How a grad student’s puppetry arts thesis, a Peter Pan adaptation, is dismantling patriarchy with Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
Returning to Your Magic Tree House
In adapting beloved children’s and YA literature to the stage, the powerhouse national MTH On Stage and Chicago Children’s Theatre let presence and play guide their way.
Middle-Class Disappearers in ‘Bleeding Hearts’
At Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit, playwright Steve Yockey tells a new horror comedy about a couple caught between classes.
High School Opportunities Launch Futures
A list of festivals, competitions, and other programs to give young people access to and training in the theatre.
Dramática: No Place Like You
The first installment of a new column explores how theatre artists in D.C. and Chicago interpret being called ‘too dramatic,’ and what home or belonging means in their art.
How to Survive a Dictatorship, the Theatre Artist’s Way
Stories of resistance from perseverant 20th century theatremakers around the world, and how they walk with us today.
