Acting & Performance

Jonna Capone discusses her experience as a plus-size actress and the body positive movement, advocating for better representation of body sizes on stage. 

The founders of dollardaddy's both come from the University of Kaposvár, a theatre school that is in a small city in the south of Hungary. In their article they present to us their path from the countryside to the very heart of the capital. / A Dollár Papa Gyermekei alapító tagjai a kaposvári színművészeti egyetemről jöttek, egy Magyarország déli részén fekvő kisvárosból. Írásukban leírják a vidékről a főváros szívébe vezető útjukat.

Last year, Kristóf Kelemen and his creative team (Angéla Eke, Alexandra Horváth, Márk Horváth, Tamás Rétfalvi, Judit Tarr) opened a performance at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts which deals with the struggles of performing arts education through their personal experiences. We asked Kristóf to give us an insight and present the system of the University of Theater and Film Arts, Budapest. / A Trafó tavalyi évadában, Kelemen Kristóf és alkotótársai (Eke Angéla, Horváth Alexandra, Horváth Márk, Rétfalvi Tamás és Tarr Judit) bemutattak egy előadást, amely az előadóművészeti oktatás nehézségeit tárgyalja, személyes tapasztalataikon keresztül. Felkértük Kristófot, hogy mutassa be a budapesti Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem működési rendszerét.

In this installment of a new series leading up to the IETM Plenary Meeting in Bucharest, Theodor-Cristian Popescu writes about being an actor in Romania.

As filmed work continues to make advancements in both artistic value and employment opportunities, educator and actor Welker White asks what responsibility training programs have in preparing acting students for work in front of a camera.

Seth Baumrin, artistic director of Subpoetics International, discusses the history, process, and journey of a company working with the stories of refugees and displaced peoples to find their way.

Professor James Ogden explores what it means to put a chair on stage, considering how design informs character choices.

Derek McCormack reports on the ongoing trend in productions that are avant-garde reimaginings of old texts in particular at BAM’s New Wave Festival.

Mark Krawczyk writes about the experience his students at Boston Conservatory at Berklee had during a semester of working with artists from Double Edge Theatre. 

Zach Dorn explores Kuro Tanino’s mythical Avidya: No Lights Inn, a ritualistic and darkly spiritual experience at the Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival in Japan.

Peggy Wright-Cleveland on the FSU production of Seminar by Theresa Rebeck.

Rob Oronato on Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, a “communal, intelligent, erotic, participatory, spectacular performance art concert; a marathon survey dedicated to destroying through exposure the racism, patriarchy, supremacy, and fascism suppressing the fabulosity of all our country’s different beleaguered Others over the years.”