At the Verbatim Salon, Immigrants Speak Through Actors
A monthly gathering produced by the American Playwriting Foundation channels stories of the U.S. immigration system with the unique theatrical urgency of in-ear verbatim technique.
A monthly gathering produced by the American Playwriting Foundation channels stories of the U.S. immigration system with the unique theatrical urgency of in-ear verbatim technique.
Gaven D. Trinidad’s ‘Learning to Read by Moonlight’ is being produced by 2 companies and staged at 3 different Boston locations, giving its themes of immigrant belonging a wide and hyper-local reach.
With his passing, we’ve lost a tireless advocate for the talent and potential of others, particularly those on the margins.
The new Immigrant Theatermakers Advocates initiative, grown out of programs by 2 New York companies, plans to build community and provide resources for immigrant artists.
How 2 directors on either side of the U.S./Mexico border created a traveling theatre piece that both demystifies and complicates the stories of fronterizos.
3 theatre companies have energized South Asian, Chinese, and Latin American audiences by staging plays in their first languages.
With a Broadway debut about disabled folks and their caretakers, the playwright of ‘Sanctuary City’ and ‘Ironbound’ is again writing at the margins.
New plays at East West Players and People’s Light illuminate the collisions, and occasional solidarity, among people of color in a white-dominated culture.
Inspired by the story of a DREAMer from Arizona, a new musical makes a humanizing case for the undocument immigrants whose rights he now advocates for.
One writer’s extraordinary efforts to prove extraordinary ability for an O-1 visa.