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Recent Essays

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

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8 November 2015

Playwright Kitty Felde discusses the challenges of producing her play The Luckiest Girl, which features the Dutch character Zwarte Piet.

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Tourette Syndrome in the Theatre

8 November 2015

Actor Gardiner Comfort discusses his experiences as a performer and audience member with Tourette Syndrome, and how it has inspired aspects of his solo show The Elephant in Every Room I Enter.

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7 November 2015

On Albert Camus’s birthday, scholar Amy Brady reviews an article that was published in Theatre Arts Magazine in 1960 reflecting Camus’s reasons why he worked in theatre.

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Finding Humanity in Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues

7 November 2015

Emerson College student Andrew Siañez-De La O writes about RareWork’s Theatre Company’s production of Caridad Svich’s Alchemy of Desire/Dead Mans Blues.

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Interview with Daniel Beaty and David Dower

6 November 2015

Adewunmi Oke interviews artist Daniel Beaty and Artistic Director David Dower about their longstanding working relationship.

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Writing about a Moving Target

6 November 2015

Playwright Lee Nowell talks about the development of Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Troy Davis Project and speaks with playwrights Gabrielle Fulton and Phillip DePoy about creating work today that deals with race.

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6 November 2015

In this seventh installment, Daniel Fine continues discussing workflow, highlighting key elements for media design in the production process.

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Hamilton, Perfect Arrangement, Who’s Your Baghdaddy? and More

5 November 2015

Jonathan Mandell explores how several recent works on New York Stages portray history and the questions they raise. 

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Why You Must Say No

5 November 2015

Jess Pillmore’s series on Sustainable Artistry continues with this post on the importance of having and knowing your non-negotiables.

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4 November 2015

Henrik Eger reports on the trajectory of the Catholic docudrama Full of Grace from vision of the late Bishop Joseph Sullivan of Brooklyn to the stage in Philadelphia.

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