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Recent Essays

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

A performer in overalls holds a small bird.
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31 May 2013

Alice Stanley writes about experiencing Chuck Mee's soot and spit, an experimental play about the artist James Castle featuring deaf and cognitively challenged actors.

Logo for LA Stage Alliance.
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The Road to New Writing

31 May 2013

Holly Derr reports from LA Stage Day, where a lack of female playwrights demonstrates a larger problem: if LA has so many female writers, then how come none of them are getting produced?

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30 May 2013

Andrew Alexander looks at Atlanta-based theatre company Saiah, which took on the challenge of making a sea and whale come alive for audiences in their adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Cover for a collection of 24 Gun Control Plays.
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30 May 2013

NoPassport collaborates with The Vicious Circle for Gun Control Theatre/New Media Action Week to keep the dialoge through art alive on the subject of gun reform globally

Tiger Woods celebrating his win at the U.S. Open.
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29 May 2013

Alex Lewin reflects on grappling with rejection as an artist.

Photo from a contemporary production of Hamlet.
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Yekaterinburg

29 May 2013

Continuing the series, Christopher W. White reflects on his time viewing the strikingly contemporary art in Yekaterinburg

Several stacks of coins.
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28 May 2013

David Dower examines the Culture Coin, and provides a sneak peek into a world where this new currency replaces cash in the theater industry.

Still from VideoCabaret's War of 1812.
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VideoCabaret’s War of 1812

28 May 2013

Matt McGeachy tallks about VideoCabaret’s The War of 1812, which attempts to understand the war and its consequences through comedy, tragedy, and Canadian history.

The Twitter logo.
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Culture Coin & the HowlRound Voting Surge!

28 May 2013

This week's activity will be a voting rally and open discussion forum about the Culture Coin project that HowlRound is proposing in the ArtsFwd Business Unusual Challenge.

Portrait of P Carl.
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27 May 2013

In this essay, P. Carl gives insight on promoting cultural exchanges and uplifting communities of artists.

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