Theatre or Family: We Shouldn’t Have to Choose
How to build support for parent artists at U.S. theatres? First let’s build a movement.
All Stories About Elevator Repair Service
#TCG18 Plenary 2: Data Points and Lived Legacies
Awards for Black Rep’s Ron Himes and Ten Thousand Things’ Michelle Hensley, and Jer Thorp’s ‘data humanism.’
Changing ‘Measure,’ Measuring the Changes
In trying to fix one of Shakespeare’s problem plays, did we create a new race issue? A fair note, but here’s the backstory.
Agency and Color: A Response to Criticism of ERS’s ‘Measure for Measure’
Given the chance to play Claudio as a black man, neither I nor our production took the racial implications lightly.
The Generative Generation
A make-it-new trend gains currency with audiences and academia.
Black Bodies, White Writers
The crushing homogeneity of theatre criticism means it’s missing crucial perspectives—and its relevance to readers.
Cooling Down: How Actors Unwind After Taxing Performances
Most actors methodically warm up for emotionally draining performances. But what do they do to recoup reality?
Collapsable Hole Will Reopen at a New Home
The artist-run performance laboratory will develop and produce cross-disciplinary performances once again.
The Wild and Woolly Worlds of Playwright Sibyl Kempson
The experimental theatremaker takes her cues from the natural world, the subconscious, and feminist thought in her genre-defining works.
New York Theatre Workshop Season to Include David Bowie and Anaïs Mitchell
The slate also includes new work by Lucas Hnath and Sibyl Kempson, with Elevator Repair Service.
