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A report on the NEA, and a deep dive into Hmong communities in Minneapolis.
Category Archives: Summer 2026
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.
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?
That Banyan Tree
This creative work from Lee Cataluna explores what Maui means to the world in the wake of the Lahaina fires.
An Excerpt From ‘Yuchewahkénh (Bitter)’
Vickie Ramirez’s play explores the erasure of Indigenous women, and what it takes to claim your voice and your culture.
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.
So Let the Fireworks Come
Counter-programming the semiquincentennial with an older and deeper story that can’t be untold.
The Quotable Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Now Onstage In Little Rock
Arkansas Rep artistic director Steve H. Broadnax III has written a new show about a local hero who went from a sharecropper’s farm to the heights of state and federal government.
Talene Monahon: Meaning in Armenian
The writer of ‘Meet the Cartozians’ chats with her leading actress about the history behind the play, the complicated effects of assimilation, and Armenian pride and trauma.
Phamaly’s ‘504: The Musical’ Makes a Sit-In Sing
A vital yet often-overlooked disability-rights protest in San Francisco in 1977 is musicalized at Denver’s Phamaly Theatre Company.
