Facial Recognition, With a Difference: How ‘Wonder’ Sees the Invisible
The author of a new musical based on a book about facial difference writes about how the show took its unique shape and gathered its like-minded team.
Category Archives: Opinion
Why I Left the Kennedy Center
A former copywriter for the D.C. organization reflects on the tenuous position of arts workers under the Trump administration.
Federal Funding for Nonprofit Arts Is Going to Be a Team Effort
It’s a good thing that unions and employers have a shared interest in the robust funding of the NEA and NEH—because it’s going to take a united front to make it happen.
Artistic Directors Should Create Space, Not Control It
The leader of 59E59, an Off-Broadway theatre complex that programs more than 30 shows a year, offers a vision for the sustainability of the art form.
Islands of Disorder
Lessons from the Global South on fugitivity and world-making in the face of empire.
Maybe, Maybe Not: A Casting Controversy and the Conversation It’s Started
An Asian American theatremaker reflects on the intent and impact of Broadway’s ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ and the precedent its latest casting decision may set.
The Process Itself Can Be the Revolution
After spending a week studying Tectonic Theater Project’s Moment Work, a theatre teacher emerges with new tools to empower young storytellers.
That’s (Political) Entertainment
A playwright considers the challenges and rewards of writing for the moment.
How ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Expands the Language of the Musical
A Broadway show about the making of a historic record in Cuba doesn’t sacrifice the authenticity of its deep cultural context—or its original language.
We Must Resist With Radical Imagination
In a recent keynote address at the New School, a Russian-born theatremaker stirred graduates with a message of hope in the face of despair.
