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Recent Essays

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

Graphic representing the internet.
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Theater and the Internet

26 November 2013

Technology reflects and changes the ways in which we think.  We need to start telling more stories designed to accommodate our interactivity of the internet to grow with our audiences.

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25 November 2013

Emerging from the  Latina/o Theatre Commons is a list of plays everyone should have access to. This list helps start jumpstart the exploration of (but not define) Latina/o theatre.

Map of the Marshall Islands with two inlays of smaller atolls.
Essay
24 November 2013

Daniel Kelin shares his experience working with a youth-oriented agencies in Pohnpei, the Marshall Islands, and American Samoa.

A tree floating in the air.
Essay
23 November 2013

Eco theater is not meant as a protest or an art installation at a climate change conference. It is a complete and independent artistic practice that happens to focus on ecological issues.

portrait of paul meshejian
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22 November 2013

Paul Meshejian challenges the idea that compensation in theater is something to be taken for granted. Instead, shouldn't we expect to not make much for our art?

Essay
22 November 2013

Many of us can attribute our path to the theater to a dynamic teacher in school: the teacher that inspired us or showed us a new side of ourselves. This series is a snapshot of today's high school theater educators across the country sharing about what they do and how and why they do this work.

Image from Marie Antoinette.
Essay
21 November 2013

W.M. Akers reviews Marie Antoinette at Soho Rep. What is to be gained by following the notorious queen past her glamour and into the hour of her death?

Essay
21 November 2013

Acting is a physical function. It starts with the body. The body is the instrument. A theater without actors is not a theater; yet theater without words exists the world over.

 

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20 November 2013

Mitch Mattson offers an overview of the work accomplished by Voices of Now: India.

Portrait of Carrie Wood
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20 November 2013

Carrie Wood as a teacher has seen how theatre in high school can develop students.  Turning the tables, one student came into her program and shaped her and her husband’s lives forever.

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