Aesthetics

Christopher Goodson interviews Diane Rodriguez about her process for developing The Sweetheart Deal.

Educator and author Max Alvarez discusses the unlikely alliance of film director Alfred Hitchcock and playwright Thornton Wilder and Wilder’s contribution to one of Hitchcock’s greatest films Shadow of a Doubt.

Patrick Gaughan explores the ideas of fame, talent, and originality in the world of celebrity impersonation.

In this installation, David Dudley talks with the three artistic directors of the SITI Company about what makes their program different and successful. 

Scholar and dramaturg Magda Romanska on the connection between humor and disability.

David Bruin on Mondo Bizarro and ArtSpot Productions’ Cry You One at the Arts & Ideas Festival in New Haven, Connecticut.

In this installation, Kate Kremer continues her exploration of durational theatre and what it has to do with realism.

Jonathan Mandell explores the use of violence on stage, and how theatremakers use the stage to respond to violence.

Bertie Ferdman interviews Ilan Bachrach, founder and Artistic Director of Mass Live Arts, a festival of contemporary and experimental performance in Great Barrington, MA.

Phil Weaver-Stoesz describes an immersive theatrical experience where the audience took control of the narrative, and asks what rules, if any, we should set for audience members in non-traditional works.

Scholar Jean Hartley Sidden considers the spectrum of theatricality.

Ian Chandler explains the appeal of a new popular art form called cardistry, and what the theatre world could gain from embracing some of its methodology.  

Kyle Thomas discusses the benefits of incorporating mobile platforms into theatrical performance.

In his second installation, Jay Ruby looks closely at precarity and the three types of edges that exist within his practice.

Jamie Gahlon interviews Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza, now marking their thirtieth year as ensemble Culture Clash.

Paul Zimet, Artistic Director of the Talking Band, speech to the New Center for Advanced Psychotherapy Studies on Repetition.

Rob Onorato on Steppenwolf Theatre’s production of Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi.

Anne Bogart’s address at the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Erin Mee discusses the emerging genre of smartphone plays.

Illana Stein reports on the perceived and projected possible ramifications of burning the Quran on stage during a production of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great.

Lee Sachs contemplates the differences between theatre and film, and the corollary between film and theatre when it comes to solo work.

The author reflects on the role of the performing arts in his own remarkable journey from Ugandan child soldier to performer and playwright.

Jennifer Johnson, of The Charlestown Working Theater, who has trained with Double Edge Theatre, interviews Stacy Klein, Founding Artistic Director of Double Edge about the evolution of Double Edge’s training method.