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Recent Essays

This is a repository of written content, sorted by most recent to oldest. Enjoy!

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18 February 2016

Carlos Morton on the recent Los Angeles production of José Sanchis Sinisterra’s Ay Carmela

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What Three Playwrights Learned Making a Web Series

18 February 2016

Playwright Seamus Sullivan writes about the process of remaking Hamlet as a noir-infused web series.

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Shifting a Playwright’s Perspective

17 February 2016

Playwright Pat Gabridge describes the experience of seeing the same production of his play in Massachusetts and Maryland.

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Dramaturgy Open Office Hours Branches Out

16 February 2016

Dramaturgs Amanda Boyle and Alyson Germinder share their experience with hosting the Dramaturgy Open Office Hour Project in Kansas City, MO.

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Ping Chong + Company

15 February 2016

In this installment, David Dudley interviews Ping Chong and Sara Zatz from Ping Chong + Company. 

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14 February 2016

In this last installment, Producing Artistic Director Tami Dixon reflects on the role of the actor’s relationship with audience members in immersive theatre. 

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Designing a New Career

14 February 2016

Seth Tyler Black shares stories and tips of theatre artists and practitioners who transitioned into the film industry.

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13 February 2016

verity healey is back with a report on Belarus Free Theatre’s Staging a Revolution festival that was held November, 2015 in London.

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12 February 2016

Ricky Young-Howze challenges theatre companies to rethink the conventional aesthetic of silent audiences and find creative ways to accommodate audience members with invisible disabilities.

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12 February 2016

Billy McEntee traces the social history connected to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which premiered on Broadway in 1953 during the height of McCarthyism.

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