Arts Journalism for 2019: Lead With Questions, Not Opinions
What did I learn at this year’s TCG National Conference? Criticism and journalism may be facing a crisis, but I can be part of the solution.
First Person
Incidents in the Life of a 21st-Century Black Boy as Written by Himself
When memory fails, writing can recall, awaken, and even liberate.
How Becoming HIV+ Turned Me Into a Playwright
It took the worst news and deepest doubts of my life to lead me to my voice and my subject: exploring Black queer love.
Free to Be: A Diary From Women’s Prison
What am I learning while doing time, apart from mopping the gym? I’m getting to know people in transition.
High Tide of Heartbreak
Has theatre wounded me as much as or more than it’s healed me?
ConFest 2018: The A(PI)-List
This year’s Chicago gathering of Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander theatremakers overflowed with dialogue, camaraderie, and activism.
Every Time It’s Personal
How my reporting on one man’s abuse got tangled up with my own grief.
ConeXion: Reflections on Carnaval 2018
Key takeaways from the Latinx Theatre Commons’s new-play fest in Chicago, where the focus was both national and hyper-local.
Reading Between the Lines of Rejection Letters
Is there a way to humanize playwrights’ familiar submission/rejection cycle? Remembering that there are human beings on both sides of the exchange can help.
The Enduring Lessons of ‘How I Learned to Drive’
My play about sexual assault has moved and inspired so many people, but first it rewrote me.