Recent Essays

Riley Braem writes about his experience programming TYA, and why it's important to expose audiences to challenging work – the younger, the better.

Jamil Khoury talks about the importance and necessity for Arab American theatre to create narratives that are complex and unifying.  

How does technology inspire us, transform us, and help us chart a new course in the 21st century.  This installment follows the story of Erol Onaran's growth from a television repariman to millionaire.

Talya Kingston shares her experiences with Nirbhaya, Quietly, and The Events at Edinburgh Fringe in the second installment of this series focusing on the idea of witnessing.

This is the fourth in a series of blogs that chronicle the birth and infancy of New Play Frontiers at People's Light and Theater Company. This week: community engagement and new plays.

A look at the idea of killer nerds: cautionary tales twice over.  First, these stories show the consequences of marginalization and then secondly probe the power of advancing technology.

Taylor Gruenloh writes about the importance of producing your friends' work, and how it just might be the future of new play development in the United States.

David Schultz examines the artist and audience relationship and offers advice on how to create a diverse and growing audience base.