‘My Tone Is Indigenous’: Larissa FastHorse on Native Comedy and Storytelling
Her ‘Thanskgiving Play’ is the first play by a Native woman playwright on Broadway, but you can leave your virtue-signaling and tragedy-porn expectations at the door.
Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. Please click here to make your fully tax-deductible donation today!
Her ‘Thanskgiving Play’ is the first play by a Native woman playwright on Broadway, but you can leave your virtue-signaling and tragedy-porn expectations at the door.
Harrison will succeed Dámaso Rodríguez at the Oregon LORT theatre after serving 17 years as co-founder and artistic director of California’s AlterTheater.
Over nearly 5 decades, the co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater has harnessed great if under-acknowledged power, and has felt an accordingly great sense of responsibility.
The path-breaking Assiniboine playwright showed us how we could channel our suffering into transcendent theatre.
A report on the rise of Native theatre, and a look at new accessibility technology.
Identity and cultural authenticity are dramatic fodder for William S. Yellow Robe Jr.