Recent Essays

In this last post in his series, Stephen Spotswood reports on the piece of theatre his students devised, and muses on its successes and everyone’s willingness to participate.

The Artistic and Education Director of Steppenwolf for Young Adults  explores the  choice to program This  Is Modern Art  and the ensuing public and critical debate in  Chicago. 

The question from TEDxBroadway 2015: What ideas about theatre can we learn from people who may never have been inside one?

In the first post of his series, Seth Lepore looks at crowdfunding, how to keep it relevant, who is actually donating, and the kind of immediacy it provides.

Scholar and theater practitioner Erin Mee, considers how by giving time-space to the sensoria, immersive, and interactive productions are inherently rasic.

In his last installment, Brendan McCall talks with Nicolai Khalezin, one of the founders of Belarus Free Theatre about art, exile, and if theatre has any impact on politics.

There is a sense that this piece somehow transcends theatre even as it embodies it—or, as Hamilton puts it: “This is not a moment, it’s a movement.”

In this last installment of her series, Mikhael Tara Garver explores sight, memory, and what happened to her when a literal wall came down on her.

Deborah Salem Smith, playwright-in-residence at Trinity Repertory Company interviews Curt Columbus, Artistic Director of Trinity Rep.

In this installation, David Dudley interviews Christopher Shinn of The New School’s MFA playwriting program about how this educational option works.