Recent Essays

Playwright Jen Silverman interviews her friend and collaborater Lisa Henieman about her stillbirth, the collaboration they embarked on to tell Lisa’s story, and the lessons they leaned from that experince.

Akiba Abaka discusses her experience at the Model the Movement conference in Boston.

Introducing Barton Booth, a place for writer and collaborators to get noticed in the hopes of getting produced.

Tomorrow's Weekly Howl will focus on the state of criticism in the theater, spurred on by Sherri Kronfeld's recent article, the many comments its garnered, Rob Weinert-Kendt's response.

Sherri Kronfeld asks why theater critics are more often than not theater practitioners, and argues for more inclusion of these hybrid theater maker/critics in the theater criticism scene.

Kashif Jerome Powell on the legacy of Dewy “Pigmeat” Markham on the Black Performance work in the Durham, North Carolina theater scene, its influcence on the work of local theatermaker Mike Wiely, and the continuation of said conversation in the current Black performace scene in Durham.

The Space Between Two Houses by Tiffany Antone of Prescott, Arizona is the seventh short play installment from The Here and Now Project.

New plays are being produced at a higher rate previously seen in region theatre. Based on the factors that make up this particular triangle region, it becomes clear what is creating this incubator.

For the North Carolina "Triangle" City Series, Lauren Keating interviews director Joseph Haj about theatre-making in a prison, divserity in theatre-leadership, and his path towards artistic direction.