Recent Series

Conversations at the intersection of truth, ethics, and performance in nonfiction theatre.

The Cultivating Cultural Resilience series is curated and hosted by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics and the Center for International Theater Development. Pieces in this series are edited, abridged transcripts of events from Cultivating Cultural Resilience, an ongoing series of solidarity workshops, discussions, and resource exchange for artists and allies in times of duress. How can artists change cultures of fear and harm while working under those systems? Using our unique skill sets, we have the ability to block harm, bridge divides, build trust, and envision a better future. 

The Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) hosted the 2025 María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium at the Lewis Arts Complex at Princeton University on Saturday, 22 March 2025. This was a one-day convening of scholars, artists, students, advocates, and others invested in the life, work, and legacy of playwright, director and educator, María Irene Fornés (1930-2018).

Leaders of the national arts and health initiative One Nation/One Project (ONOP) reflect on their learnings and share best practices in achieving a monumental moment on 27 July 2024, when eighteen cities and towns across the United States premiered eighteen distinct participatory public art projects–each designed to improve community health and wellbeing. Started in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ONOP led and supported all eighteen projects in developing up to three years of unprecedented collaboration between municipal, artistic, and health sector leaders. These projects represented vastly different economic, social, racial, and geographic experiences–each working together to explore the change possible at the intersection of arts and health. The series starts by charting parallels between theatremaking and movement building and then shares how the arts can be a tool in values-based research, equitable community engagement, and building social cohesion. It goes on to explore the future possibilities of this work and, finally, its implications more broadly in today’s socio-political landscape.

The experiment of shared leadership is not revolutionary. Theatres have operated under different shared leadership models for decades, many of them theatres of color for whom shared leadership is an economic necessity. Yet as the field’s traditional models slowly evolve to keep up with the sweeping leadership changes, we’re seeing more of our legacy institutions implement new and bold shared leadership structures. This series, The Evolution of Shared Leadership in Theatre, interrogates the often problematic processes behind these changes, and uplifts stories from practitioners who transitioned their leadership model while centering the humans at the heart of their organizations.

This series combines content from and about the 2025 Under the Radar Symposium, produced by the Under the Radar Festival and ArkType.

Pour yourself a fresh cup of coffee and join us to pull the curtains closed on your digital home!

Now in its second year, the festival embraces the theme The Water Remembers, exploring the transformative power of water as a vessel of remembrance, connection, and cultural legacy.

This series of seven episodes will focus on art management as it concerns Africa's performing art and cultural sector. This subject is under-discussed on the continent, and there exists a variety of experiences, exposures, and practices that, if shared, might support the sector. Specifically, this series will focus on the administration of arts and culture organizations, including marketing, fundraising, and policy in Africa.