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All Stories About Native theatre
Jeanette Harrison to Lead Native Theater Project
A leader with a track record of nurturing and producing work by Native artists, Harrison will begin the project in residency at Oregon’s Bag&Baggage Productions.
Artists Repertory Theatre Suspends Production on 2023-24 Season
The upcoming season was the first planned by artistic director Jeanette Harrison, who was appointed in 2022.
‘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.
Jeanette Harrison Named New Artistic Director of Artists Rep
Harrison will succeed Dámaso Rodríguez at the Oregon LORT theatre after serving 17 years as co-founder and artistic director of California’s AlterTheater.
Digging Deep With Native Theatre Icon Muriel Miguel
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.
Bill Yellow Robe Spoke Native Truth to White Power
The path-breaking Assiniboine playwright showed us how we could channel our suffering into transcendent theatre.
Featured Contributors, April 2018
A report on the rise of Native theatre, and a look at new accessibility technology.
The Real Thing
Identity and cultural authenticity are dramatic fodder for William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
