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Recent Essays

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

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5 September 2013

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

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5 September 2013

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

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4 September 2013

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

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4 September 2013

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.

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3 September 2013

Bertie Ferdman writes about the use of immersion in Roadskill and La Ruta, and how this trend in storytelling can help us create political theater that creates empathy and action.

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Encouraging a Theater of Differences

3 September 2013

In a country that is strongly divided, Daniel Jones wonders about the opportunity for conservative stories to be shown on stage.  Would opposers be willing to engage in this story?

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Marathon Theater

3 September 2013

This Thursday's topic: "Marathon Theater" which is presented in the HowlRound Journal article Too Much Theater? The New Marathons by Jonathan Mandell.

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2 September 2013

Michael Rohd continues the series on the intersection of political ideology and art in their work. We know that content is political... but how can form dictate a play's mission as well?

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School to Back

2 September 2013

On this edition of Parenting & Playwriting with Catherine Trieschmann: the first days of school.

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Lucy Thurber

1 September 2013

Todd London on Obie Award winner and American playwright Lucy Thurber.

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