Recent Essays

The Café Onda Editorial Board and New York City theatremakers talk about the Big Apple’s landscape of Latina/o/x theatre, in anticipation of the Latinx Theatre Commons’ New York City Regional Convening.

Brian Hashimoto travels to Poland and reports on the 2016 Malta Festival.

Jess Barbagallo and Chris Giarmo discuss design questions for Jess’s play My Old Man (and Other Stories) and the recently increased interest in trans artists.

Matt Błażejewski discusses the Me Too Monologues and its impact as a community-based theatre project that spreads awareness of mental health issues to college students.

Read the community responses to our questions, “What do you stand for? What does your art stand for?”

Dramaturg Deanie Vallone talks with playwright Larissa FastHorse about The Thanksgiving Play, writing a play with all white characters, and the obligation artists and institutions have to their area’s Indigenous community.

Chicago-based costume designer, textile designer, and wardrobe stylist Elsa Hiltner considers the division of labor and allocation of technical support within theatrical design.

Sound designer Victoria Deiorio reflects on her experience of Complicite’s The Encounter and its ingenious use of sound. 

Jess Pillmore encourages artists not to limit their thinking to what may seem “possible.”

Aaron Sawyer and Sidney T. Smith write about Unified Access Auditions at Red Theater in Chicago, IL.