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Recent Essays

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

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12 April 2015

LA playwright Jon Caren discusses the theatrical Renaissance that’s currently happening in LA regardless of the 99-seat theater debate.

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Artists Have to be Entrepreneurs

12 April 2015

Seth Lepore talks about gaining the skills to self-produce and theatre artists as entrepreneurs.

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11 April 2015

Scholar Magda Romanska presents an overview of contemporary women directors in Poland.

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Conversations, Connections, and Considerations

10 April 2015

Talleri McRae shares a conversation hosted by StageOne Family Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky about making theatre specific to a particular community.

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9 April 2015

The author shares her thoughts on Gideon Irving and the Foundry Theatre’s Living Here: a map of songs.

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University of Texas Students Producing the Next Generation of New Work

9 April 2015

In the first post of this mini-blog series, two students at the University of Texas at Austin share the excitement surrounding The Cohen New Works Festival.

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8 April 2015

Amy Brady interviews Pig Iron Theatre’s Artistic Director, Dan Rothenberg, and collaborating artist Troy Herion.

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A Conversation with Anne Bothwell

6 April 2015

Commons producer Jonathan Norton chats with Anne Bothwell about Stagger Lee: Making a Musical, a digital storytelling project tracking the development of Will Power’s new musical.

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Designing for Interactive Theatre

5 April 2015

Lighting designer Megan Reilly outlines the process of designing for production with twelve possible iterations.

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4 April 2015

Is it appropriate for a non-autistic to play the part of an autistic? 

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