In Challenging Times, Our Theatres Can Rise to the Challenge
It’s going to be a long time before we’re back doing live theatre at full capacity indoors, but there is plenty of work to do until then.
Dispatches From Quarantine
One Way to Keep Theatre Alive? Put It on TV
Networks should borrow a model from the 1950s television series which broadcast exciting new plays live from the studio.
Tomorrow’s Pandemic Plays, Today!
Can’t wait to see how playwrights will be inspired by the coronavirus quarantine? Yeah, me neither.
This Is What We Do Now
Theatre is the practice of putting dreams into action, so why don’t we use this time to dream, not about some uncertain future, but about what we can start doing now?
What Would Life Be Like Without Theatre? We All Get to Find Out
Like George Bailey in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ we have the chance to glimpse the world without our work. Will we make the most of what we learn in this down time?
Teaching Theatre Now Is a Re-Education for Us All
The pandemic cut short the academic year for me and my high school theatre students, but we are finding ways to connect—and some silver linings.
Be Your Own Virgil: A Rumination for the Class of 2020
Without signposts and ceremonies to mark our lives, we have no one but ourselves to guide us to our next chapters.
On (Trying) to Create in the Age of COVID
One way we might use this anxious downtime: to imagine a theatre field that’s better and fairer than the one we’ve known.
Choosing Your Religion
In this time of listening and reflection, might we return theatre to its essentials? We can at least start sketching our way there.
‘I Made What I Could With What I Had’
The 24 Hour Plays, a theatremaking model founded on rapid creation and collaboration, is doubling down on a core strength: the relationship between writers and actors.