Life Jacket Theatre Co. Announces Commission for Trans Playwrights
The commissioned playwright will use Life Jacket’s ethnographic research approach to create a play about trans people in the U.S.
All Stories About TGNC
The Fine and Freshly Urgent Art of Telling Queer Histories Onstage
Travis Russ and Melissa Moschitto talk about the delicate, revealing work of recovering stories of queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks from the last century and before.
It Opened Doors on TV, But Can ‘Transparent’ Sing Onstage?
How the creators of ‘A Transparent Musical’ have adapted the hit series about a Jewish family’s multiple gender journeys into a stage musical, premiering tonight at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum.
Will Davis at Rattlestick: An Artistic Homecoming
What would take a busy freelance director off the road? The chance to gather and serve communities—especially those who’ve been under-served.
Theatre Is No Longer Therapy for Taylor Mac
For the versatile playwright-performer, whose ‘Joy and Pandemic’ is up at the Huntington, writing is a way to understand themself and the world.
When the Process Is the Problem
After a back-and-forth over COVID vaccine policy sparked an HR investigation at New Dramatists, the fallout exposed the faultlines between the personal and the professional—and between artists and leadership.
It’s Well Past Time for an All-Neurodivergent Staging of ‘Curious Incident’
A look behind the scenes of a new, more accessible student production of the popular play centering an autistic character.
Sarah Mantell Wins 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
They take the honor for the as-yet-unproduced play ‘In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,’ written for cast of 7 women, non-binary, and trans actors over 50.
Will Davis Named Rattlestick Artistic Director
When the busy director succeeds Daniella Topol in the position as of May 1, he will be the first transgender leader of a major non-LGBTQ-specific theatre.
Why the Fight Over Drag Is a Struggle for Us All
Proposed drag bans aren’t really about drag but about transphobia and homophobia. And they aren’t just threatening marginalized people and their livelihoods—they’re also attacking an art and a form of free expression.
