Life and (Near) Death in Broadway’s ‘Swept Away’
The star of this season’s shipwrecked Avett Brothers musical reflects on the show’s brief, brilliant voyage—and how its dark depths rescued his first love.
Category Archives: First Person
Coffee Chronicles
A playwright travels to his parents’ home country and plants the seeds for a new play with Hero Theatre’s Nuestro Planeta project.
5 Things Theatre Criticism Taught Me About Playwriting
Our managing editor reflects on how the skills she picked up doing arts journalism inform her approach to storytelling in another medium.
‘So Many Truths’: Reflecting on the 2024 TCG Conference
The Theatre Communications Group National Conference in Chicago offered much-needed interconnectedness, resources, and hope for a culture at the crossroads.
From Restless to Rooted: Reflecting on the 2024 TCG Conference
This year’s conference offered questions, realizations, and opportunities to explore what change can and should look like.
A Critical Moment: Reflecting on the 2024 TCG Conference
This year’s TCG national conference demonstrated the need to build not only community but solidarity as well.
Throwing Toys, Facing the Music: My Cathartic 2-Show Day
How to deal with rejection and gain perspective on this crazy business? Maybe spend a day watching Broadway musicals you worked on but ultimately weren’t cast in.
Civic Scores: A Modest Proposal for Theatre Beyond the Stage
Why can’t Americans talk to each other anymore? Theatre artists may have precisely the right skills to kickstart discourse and rekindle empathy.
Palestine, Alive in Exile: ‘Returning to Haifa’ and Reclaiming the Narrative
A new staging of Ghassan Kanafani’s novella inaugurates Golden Thread’s 2024 Season of Palestine with a reminder of our past and invites us to consider a future of joyful resistance.
Be Open, Let Go: What I Learned From The 24 Hour Plays
Why a very busy TV writer has regularly joined a group of theatre artists who pull all-nighters to create plays from scratch.
