It’s the Words That We Don’t Say That Scare Me So
Dialogue is mostly a form of behavior and personal revelation usually accidental. Therein lies a drama, and a mystery.
Opinion
Whose Professionalism Matters?
The theatre field’s unexamined standards and hierarchies are too frequently oppressive, exploitative, and white supremacist. Here’s how we can change them.
Centering Joy: Resolutions for a New Year, and a New Field
Rebuilding will be challenging, but we must embrace abundance and celebrate possibility to create a better vision for the future.
In Call for National Arts Support, Don’t Overlook Young Audiences
The soul-healing and community-building qualities of children’s theatre, a key part of the Federal Theatre Project, should be central to any new deal for the arts.
Doug and ‘Hades’: A Remembrance
Dramaturg Doug Langworthy shone his light on the work of others, but it finally couldn’t lead him out of his own private darkness.
Moments in an American Town
Catching a glimpse of the beloved community in a quirky, inclusive corner of the U.S.
‘Fefu’ and Her Pleasures
How Fornés’s landmark play can teach us to imagine different ways of living, fighting, and making theatre.
What Stacey Abrams Can Teach Us About Changing Our Theatres
She used her anger at a system that betrayed its ideals as fuel to organize against it. We can and should do the same.
Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them
Nonprofit theatre boards are unrepresentative, out of touch, and more often oppressive than supportive. We can and must do this better.
Wolf at the Door: How Musicals Helped Me Live the Size of My Feelings
How the queerness of fairy tales and musicals, once coded and now more open, has always spoken—and sung—directly to me.