‘A Country That Tells Me I Ain’t Really She’
An excerpt from ‘For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss A Mother Fucker Out When Snatching An Edge Ain’t Enough: A Choreo Poem.’
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VR: A Space to Create (and Escape) During the Pandemic
From cockroaches to Greek myths, virtual theatre productions are offering theatremakers and audiences a way to connect.
Liz Swados’s Legacy: The Revolution Will Be Vocalized
A new album featuring many of her alt-musical singer/composer heirs reminds us of the vital, ever-timely pulse of her music.
Aria Ready for Online Opera, in Both Form and Content
Both Michael Roth’s ‘The Web Opera’ and HERE’s ‘all decisions are made by consensus’ use our screen-mediated world as a narrative given.
VR Theatre Doesn’t Seem So Distant Anymore
Working with Facebook and an Oculus Quest headset, NYU students explore the possibility of staging theatre via virtual reality.
The Melody Lingers On in the Michael Friedman and Jonathan Larson Projects
Two musical-theatre composers who died tragically young get new recordings to keep their songs in rotation.
Why Director Rupert Goold Wanted Live Singing in ‘Judy’
Renée Zellweger does her own singing in the new Garland biopic, amplifying not only the film’s authenticity but its poignancy as well.
5, 6, 7, 8 Takeaways From ‘Fosse/Verdon’
Spoiler: The new bio-musical series isn’t just great TV, it also makes a case for more inclusive storytelling.
What Dreams May Come: A VR ‘Hamlet’ Puts Us in the Room
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company has teamed with Google to make an immersive virtual-reality adaptation, viewed by a ghostly roving camera.
Offscript: A Peek at Education and Engagement Programming
Nikki Toombs of Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre Company and Tanya Mote from Denver’s Su Teatro share how engagement and education work fits their theatres’ missions.