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Gvantsa Enukidze, Giorgi Giorganashvili, Tamara Chumashvili and Sandro Samkharadze in UNLOVE by Davit Khorbaladze at the Open Space | Centre for Performing and Visual Arts. Photo by Davit Meskhi. Featured in "A Speculative Love Performance in the Margins" by Yaşam Özlem Gülseven and Davit Khorbaladze.

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Your hub for global theatre conversations

We're a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide, and we've been amplifying progressive and disruptive ideas about theatre and facilitating connections between diverse practitioners for more than a decade. We function as a “commons”—a social structure that invites open participation around shared values.

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Livestreams Happening Today

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Join the livestream of the third Cultural Mobility Forum hosted by On the Move member Wales Arts International.

On Thursday, 25 April, and Friday, 26 April, the third Cultural Mobility Forum is hosted by On the Move member Wales Arts International in Caernarfon, Wales and live streamed by HowlRound. As part of its multiannual program co-funded by the European Union, each year On the Move proposes a Cultural Mobility Forum to collectively investigate international artistic and cultural mobility trends.

A anatomical map of a brain over a New York City street.
Join the Segal Center in celebrating Robert Lyons and the Ohio Theatre.

Join the Segal Center in celebrating Robert Lyons and the Ohio Theatre (1987 - 2023).

Event streams later today at listed time.

What's New

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Geaux and Gather
Essay

Geaux and Gather

25 April 2024

Ayesha Jordan writes about the intersection of performance and permaculture, and how slowing down and respecting the cycles of the earth are influencing her multi-species project in process. 

Performers in animal masks kneel on all fours beneath the shadow of a tree at night.
The Speculative Ecologies of The Unreliable Bestiary
Essay

The Speculative Ecologies of The Unreliable Bestiary

24 April 2024

Deke Weaver discusses his life-long project, The Unreliable Bestiary: an ark of full-length performances about animals, our relationships with them, and the worlds they inhabit. Through this ambitious project, Deke and his team draw out the connections between disparate local and global dots and illustrate how the personal is political.

Outside in a field, performer leans away from another stilt-wearing performer.
Agri-Culture in Climate Change
Essay

Agri-Culture in Climate Change

23 April 2024

Tannis Kowalchuk, artistic director of Farm Arts Collective, shares about the project Dream on the Farm—a ten year project of climate change plays performed on Willow Wisp Organic Farm that grapples with the questions: How do we imagine our future? What are our dreams?

Upcoming Livestreams

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Inside The Performance Workshop, Book Talk
Video

Inside The Performance Workshop, Book Talk

Celebrating the recent publication of Inside the Performance Workshop with the co-authors. 

Monday 29 April 2024
New York

Celebrate the recent publication of Inside the Performance Workshop with Rachel Bowditch, Paula Murray Cole, Michele Minnick, and Richard Schechner.

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Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making
Video

Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making

A virtual book launch event

Wednesday 1 May 2024

Join the Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making Book Launch Panel! Organized and moderated by Editor Rivka Eckert, contributors will share perspectives and insights from the book.

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Honoring Nehad Selaiha
Video

Honoring Nehad Selaiha

An evening celebrating the work of Egyptian theatre scholar Nehad Selaiha

Thursday 2 May 2024

Join us for an evening celebrating the Segal Center publication of five volumes of one of the most important voices in theatre criticism in the Arab world: the distinguished scholar and prominent critic of Egyptian theatre, Nehad Selaiha (1945-2017).

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