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Summer 2025

Extreme Vetting and Extraordinary Ability

By Miriam Felton Dansky

The politics of international artist visas have never run smooth, but they’ve become increasingly bumpy in a changing U.S.

Here, There, and Everywhere

By Lyndsey Bourne

Immigrant theatremakers working in the U.S. reflect on what they write
and who they’re writing for.

Islands of Disorder

By Rad Pereira

Lessons from the Global South on fugitivity and world-making
in the face of empire.

Playscript

The complete text of Adil Mansoor’s Amm(i)gone, plus a Q&A with the playwright by Big Art Group co-founder and artistic director Caden Manson.

Featured Contributors

From the Editor

From the Executive Office

Front and Center: Festival d’Avignon, Stage Aurora’s The Sit-In Experience, Madhuri Shekar’s Dhaba on Devon AVenue at Writers Theatre, Artists at Play’s Neighborhood Project, Rorschach Theatre’s Psychogeographies project, Ken Weitzman’s The Happiness Gym 

People to Watch: Florencia Cuenca and Kimie Nishikawa

Production Notebook by Jim Farmer: How to Make a Home by Out of Hand Theater

A Glance Back

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