‘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.
A ‘Capsule’ of a Tense Year, Captured on Film
Theatre artists Whitney White and Peter Mark Kendall made a show for Under the Radar that tests the bounds of their form, and of their friendship.
Earth Angel: 2 Colleagues Remember Rebecca Luker
A close friend and a fellow performer remember her disarming presence, humor, and determination.
Encore Monthly Looks Forward to Theatre of the ’20s
A new print monthly—yes, you read that right—is positioning itself to cover the field as it reemerges in coming years.
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.
Theatrical Outfit Announces Unexpected Play Fest, New Associate AD
Dramaturg, playwright, and director Addae Moon has joined the Atlanta company.
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.
A Theatre of Circumstance, or, From Stuck to Strength
Looking toward a post-COVID horizon, we must plan for adjustment, redefinition, and a new kind of relevance.
Student Plays Say #ENOUGH to Gun Violence
Nationwide readings on the scourge of guns brought pandemic-isolated theatre folks together for a common cause—and the momentum may continue.