Recent Essays

Steele Campbell on HerSelf Rising by Girls on Trapeze at Sideshow Fringe Festival in Nashville, Tennessee.

Daniel Gallant discusses expensive ticket costs and advocates more financial accessibility for arts events.

Agnes Borinsky considers a framework for thinking about playwriting from the sentence up, rather than from the idea down, which offers an alternative to the infiltration of playwriting with market-based thinking.

Actor and writer Eli Keel reflects on his introduction to Shakespeare and advocates translation for new audiences.

Actor Iris Gonzalez describes her experience with Cornerstone Theatre Company, in the latest installment of the series about their California Bridge Tour.

Actor/playwright Joe Wilson, Jr. discusses his experience and the cultural climate in St. Louis during the Every 28 Hours Project workshops.

Shellen Lubin summarizes the discussions and themes of the Equity in Theatre Symposium and International Summit on Gender Parity in Theatre, which took place in Toronto in April, 2015.

What if the only thing “childish” about a children’s theatre was the age of the performers? Fun House in Dallas-Ft. Worth is a youth acting program that avoids the “juniorization” of work.

Producer Sean Williams talks with the four lead actors in The Honeycomb Trilogy.

In the first installment of her new series on Sustainable Artistry, Jess Pillmore encourages readers to think more broadly than a five-year plan.