Recent Essays

In this installment, Playwright and poet Sabina England shares her process for creating performances for deaf and hearing audiences.

Have jokey depictions of elections on stage and screen helped cause a joke of a real-life presidential campaign?  Jonathan Mandell visits two experimental theatre projects that are tackling this year’s presidential election in serious and intriguing ways.

Several dozen artists, administrators, and activists met at the Lark Play Development Center in January 2016 to consider challenges and successes and the state of deaf theatre.

Scholar Caroline Heafey reports on Fordham University’s Waking the Feminists symposium and the quest for gender parity in Irish theatre.

Series curator DJ Kurs writes about the history of ASL and Deaf actors.

Rhiannon D’Averc on The Father by Florian Zeller, playing in London’s West End.

Howard Sherman writes about the responsibility theatres have to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Author Sara Nović writes about the state of Deaf education, and its implications for the theatre.

Marshall Botvinick contemplates how the theatre community can respond to Donald Trump’s political rise.

Scholar and translator Barbara Fuchs discusses the opportunities and challenges of diversifying the classical canon to include Spanish-language Hispanic classical theatre.