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Recent Essays

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

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2 July 2015

Addie Gorlin describes the benefits of casting actual teenagers to play the roles of teenagers, despite what common practice is.

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1 July 2015

Jonathan Mandell talks with Producer Tom Kirdahy about celebrating a marriage three times and how theatre can make a difference.

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Sylvia Milo's The Other Mozart

30 June 2015

Jess Applebaum on Sylvia Milo’s original solo performance as Nannerl, Mozart’s mostly-forgotten sister in The Other Mozart.

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30 June 2015

Bob Leonard looks at historic duos who don’t get along, and compares them to his own experience with his long-time radio partner.

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The Tactics of Real Time

29 June 2015

In this installation, Kate Kremer continues her exploration of durational theatre and what it has to do with realism.

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Money Lab and the Patronage Auction

28 June 2015

Edward Einhorn on the economics of Money Lab and what it taught him about the relationship of art and money.

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Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

27 June 2015

Laura Brueckner interviews Peter Sinn Nachtrieb about the development of The Totalitarians.

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Peter Sinn Nachtrieb on writing and Robert O'Hara on directing The Totalitarians at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

27 June 2015

Ronee Penoi sits down with Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and Robert O’Hara to discuss their process working on The Totalitarians Woolly Mammoth last year.

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26 June 2015

Waylon Lenk considers how the University of Oregon and Southern Oregon University are doing Native theatre and compares their models to his approach to organizing a reading series by Native authors at Oregon State University.

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26 June 2015

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation application for the National Playwright Residency Program is now live.

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