Black Theatre’s Family Reunion
Every other year since 1989, the International Black Theatre Festival has gathered theatremakers and fans for a celebration of Black artistry and excellence.
Category Archives: Features
What Else Is New: From ‘Gilgamesh’ to ‘Basquiat’
The cup overfloweth in this nationwide roundup of new stage works.
What’s in ‘HMong Futures’?
Katie Ka Vang’s play about a historic Twin Cities immigrant community became more timely than anticipated when their state was violently occupied.
Plays Are Meant to Be Seen, Not Heard
In the early 2000s, some major U.S. theatres dedicated spaces in their buildings to producing new work by new playwrights. Where are those programs—and those writers—now?
Taken for Granted? The NEA Under a New Regime
The National Endowment for the Arts has survived decades of attacks and cuts, even two Trump elections. But at what cost?
New Work, Fresh From WWU’s Summer Test Kitchen
Western Washington University’s summer program brings students together with guest writers for two weeks of collaborative development.
Dusk of a Great Day at Theater Mu
A new report, part of the Wallace Foundation’s Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative, spotlights promising solutions to long-standing artistic challenges at a Minnesota theatre company.
Can We Talk About Success? The Pregones/PRTT Story
NYC’s Puerto Rican theatre, a new Wallace Foundation report shows, faces structural challenges—and has much to offer the field.
So Let the Fireworks Come
Counter-programming the semiquincentennial with an older and deeper story that can’t be untold.
An Excerpt From ‘Antíkoni’
This adaptation of Sophocles’s ‘Antigone’ centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family tearing itself apart over the fate of ancestral remains.
