Recent Essays

The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay. This Thursday's topic: "Imagining an Arab American Theater Movement". 

Highlighted by Scotland’s possible independence, Regan sifts through the idea of how debate can be brought on by political theatre.

Winebrenner discusses how to utilize our freedom by using theatre as a  vehicle for cooperative political debate.

(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham, a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has come utilize them through trial, error, and advice from others.

Allison Vanouse writes about DEAD ART STAR at Bathaus, and how social media documentation interacts and intersects with performance art and its goals.

Mark Adam Rud writes responds to Caleb Winebrenner on the importance of theater to the libertarian movement.

In this essay, Jonathon Mandell invesitgates theatre marathon and interviews Mike Daisy.

Jan Cohen-Cruz responds to Daniel Jones' post: can anyone from any political background produce theater? The answer is yes... if you look at the many different forms that theater can take.