Recent Essays

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

Book cover for Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison".

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Docile Bodies

Disciplining the Imagination

4 March 2013

In this meditation, P. Carl examines the effectiveness of discipline when influencing creativity and promoting critical thought.

Emily Niewendorp and a few of her colleagues.

Creating Performance Opportunities

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Creating Performance Opportunities

1 March 2013

Emily Niewendorp writes about The Alacrity Project, and the importance of creating the oppurtunities you wish were available to you as an artist.

Poster for Los Colibries.

The Hummingbirds

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The Hummingbirds

The Internationalists World Tour—New York, NY

1 March 2013

Groenveld explores the different interpretations of his play The Hummingbirds as the play can be cast with any age, race, and gender to bring out different nuances of the script.

Working Around the Problem

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Working Around the Problem

28 February 2013

David Weiner writes about his way of combatting the dearth of young theater professionals: introducing students to the arts via Words Alive.

Call for Final NewCrit Critic!

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Call for Final NewCrit Critic!

27 February 2013

A huge thank you to everyone who applied. We are opening up the call for critics nationwide to determine our final city.

The letters R & J painted on a brick sidewalk.

Eroticizing Gender in Shakespeare’s R&J

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Eroticizing Gender in Shakespeare’s R&J

An Interview with Joe Calarco

27 February 2013

A conversation about the implications and discoveries made when putting Romeo and Juliet in the frame of a same-sex relationship.

The Life and Times of The Production Company

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The Life and Times of The Production Company

26 February 2013

Mark Armstrong describes the creation and eventual end to the Production Company

Weekly Howl on Thursday, February 28

Theatre Commons

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Weekly Howl on Thursday, February 28

How are you going to adapt & thrive in the context of not-for-profit arts funding scarcity?

25 February 2013

Let's discuss how the arts can thrive in a world of cuts to arts funding and general economic austerity.

Photo of Karen Malpede posing with two dogs.

Another Life and the Truth about Torture

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Another Life and the Truth about Torture

25 February 2013

In this meditation, Karen Malpede offers an investigation of torture and how it can be imitated onstage.

Sharing Process

Double Edge Theatre

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Sharing Process

UNIVERSES & Double Edge Theatre

23 February 2013

answer some questions about their process as part of The Next Thing Festival.

February 20, 2013

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