Recent Essays

Commons Producer Miranda Craigwell interviews Melinda Lopez about her experience as Playwright-in Residence at Huntington Theatre Company. 

In his third installment, Eli Keel discusses the ethics of seeking consent from actors in theatre settings.

Chicago theatre artist Nicholas Ward offers tips for how white allies can help dismantle theatre’s racial disparity.

Em Piro writes about the exciting wave of cross-genre collaboration she’s witnessing in St. Louis, and addresses the successes and pitfalls of such work.

South African producer Sue Melvill writes about the founding and success of Industrial Theatre—theatre in the workplace.

In this installment of her After-the-Avant-Garde series, Kate Kremer looks at the parallel functions of the prompter in the chicken suit in Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s 2009 Romeo and Juliet and Br’er Rabbit in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon.

Regina García interviews playwright Amparo Garcia-Crow about her musical on Gus Garcia, a Mexican-American civil rights leader.

David Dudley interviews Naoko Maeshiba about the opportunities in Towson University’s MFA in Theatre Arts program. 

Katie Naka discusses the Go Green pop-up experience in Harlem and advocates experimenting with urban green spaces as venues.

Nelson T. Eusebio III addresses the argument that the “best” actor must always be cast in a role, regardless of race.