Aesthetics

Laura Brueckner reports on the recent Arts in a Changing America’s REMAP Bay Area convening.

Judith Jerome discusses the recent Broadway production of Blackbird by David Harrower.

Jonathan Mandell on the recent spate of sung through musicals, including Hadestown, The Total Bent, Evening 1910, and Hamilton.

Shari Caplan on Sans Everything by Strange Attractor Theatre at the Charlestown Working Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Actress/Playwright Romana Soutus shares her process and experience performing her solo show Hyena.

Playwright Kathleen Warnock reports on WOW Café Theatre’s reunion and book launch for Memories of the Revolution, which chronicles the first ten years of WOW Café.

Josh Platt reflects on Boston-based director Summer Williams’ interpretation of Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara, in light of her recent direction of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

In this installment, Donald Sanborn interviews Composer and Lyricist Noel Katz about his career and process.

Jess Barbagallo on Tragedy of Spades by Liza Birkenmeier, directed by Katherine Brook at University Settlement in New York City.

In this first installment, Playwright Irene Loy discusses how the Hero’s Journey traditionally exists in Western dramatic form and advocates alternative ways of portraying heroes.

Jenna Gerdsen on a reinvention of wayang kulit—the ancient Southeast Asian puppet theatre form.

Actors Mary Frances Noser and Emma Lukens reflect on their process acting in Love Sonnets at Emerson College.

In this second installment, Helen Schultz reflects on her dramaturgical process.

In this first installment, Director Caitlin Bailey shares her directorial process for Love Sonnets: Things Women Say, a compilation of monologues for women written by Chuck Mee.

Minna Vallaste writes about a piece she created about dementia using ideas from Kantor’s Theatre of Death.

In this installment, Koy Suntichotinun discusses his process for creating a performance piece interpreting Aaron Weissman’s State Park, in which he incorporates social media.

Holly L. Derr deconstructs a new dynamic in her theatre department.

Brent Eickhoff discusses the challenges of programming large theatre productions with youth, advocating clear, realistic goals for teaching artists, students, and parents. 

Chantal Bilodeau on writing ourselves out of the pyramid and why she is breaking up with Aristotle.

Nelson Gray discusses the inspiration for his opera Here Oceans Roar and advocates more art centered on climate change.

Eco-theatre scholar and pioneer Una Chaudhuri considers how theatre is inventing new strategies for performance offered or necessitated by climate change.

Costume Designer M.L. Hart parallels the principles and concepts of costume and makeup design to body modification.

Playwright Will Arbery shares his experience working with BOOMERANG Dance Company and how movement informs his writing process.