Divine Comedy Festival: Joy and Despair, Head-Scratching and Mind-Blowing
This last dispatch from the 2024 gathering checks in with some Americans who’ve felt both inspired and challenged by their Polish counterparts.
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Sex, Politics, Guarded Optimism: A Report From Kraków’s Divine Comedy
Theatre in Poland inevitably intersects with politics, and not only because it relies on state support.
Our Man in Kraków: Dispatches From Divine Comedy
This correspondent returned eagerly to a place where theatre still matters in a troubled world, even if it can’t quite make sense of it.
Tomorrow’s Tamoras and Titanias: How to Heal the High School Space
High school theatre programs have often been sites of harm, particularly for femme and non-binary kids of color, but some are paving a better path forward.
Superheroes on Native Land, Part 3
In the series’ final installment, Cornerstone tours Larissa FastHorse’s play through the D/N/Lakota nations, with quietly, joyously transformative results—and learns to say goodbye.
Teaching Truths: How 4 Native Artists Care for Their Culture
Murielle Borst-Tarrant, Rhiana Yazzie, Opalanietet, and Sharon Day talk about the importance of storytelling for their communities.
Superheroes on Native Land, Part 2
After years of community work and some COVID setbacks, Cornerstone Theater assembles a cast, a set, and a tour for Larissa FastHorse’s ‘Wicoun.’
Authenticity and Urgency: New Plays For Us and By Us
How 4 theatres develop work by writers of color with communities of color at the center.
Theatres No Longer Bound to the Stage
How 6 THRIVE! recipient theatres have embraced new mediums and built new audiences.
Serious Play: The Art of Wafaa Bilal and Tasneem Mandviwala
When a painter and a performance artist work with theatres, all parties learn lessons about experience, engagement, and ecstasy.
