The 2025 Theatre in the Age of Climate Change series explores solo performances that take on ecological issues. Curator Chantal Bilodeau introduces the series by using her own play, No More Harveys, to ask: how can we use theatre to hold the entire world in one body?
As part of the Black and Indigenous Futures series, this conversation convenes Samora Pinderhughes, Storme Webber, and Mary Amanda McNeil to consider the ways that kinship and solidarity across broader collectives can coexist and mutually enrich one another through intentional practice.
Pearl Cleage and Vera Starbard in Conversation, Part II
15 January 2020
In part two of their conversation, Vera Starbard and Pearl Cleage—playwrights-in-residence at Juneau, Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre and Atlanta, Georgia’s Alliance Theatre, respectively—talk about different cultural practices, the white gaze, moving away from anger, and more.
Pearl Cleage and Vera Starbard in Conversation, Part I
14 January 2020
In part one of their conversation, playwrights Vera Starbard and Pearl Cleage talk about their respective residencies—at Juneau, Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre and Atlanta, Georgia’s Alliance Theatre, respectively—race and representation at their institutions, not writing for a white audience, and more.
Why I Cancelled a Workshop in Favor of a Two-Week Trip Through Rural Alaska
6 May 2019
Playwright Vera Starbard (Tlingit/Dena’ina) reflects on her journey through rural Alaskan Native communities to reawaken the ancestral spirit of her work, Native Pride (and Prejudice).
Actor and former Naa Kahidi Theatre ensemble member Allan Hayton(Gwich’in) reflects on the history of the company and how theatre can be used as a tool for community building and healing.
Playwright Lucas Rowley (Inupiaq) reflects on navigating expectations of Western theatre while also balancing his Inupiaq traditions and community responsibilities.
La MaMa Experimental Theater Club presented a performance of ALAXSXA, a production of Ping Chong + Company, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound.TV network on Saturday 14 October at 7:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:00 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).
A Call for Solidarity—a real-time networked performance linking Hawaii, Alaska, and New York City—livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 15 April at 8 p.m. EDT (New York) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 5 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 4 p.m. AKDT (Alaska) / 2 p.m. HAST (Hawaii).
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Perseverance Theatre presented the 2nd Annual Alaska One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed from Anchorage on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 13 April at 8 p.m. AKDT (Alaska) / 9 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 11 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 12 a.m. EDT midnight (New York) / 04:00 GMT (Tuesday 14 April).
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) & Perseverance Theatre presented the 1st Alaska One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 14 April at 7:30 p.m. AKDT/ 8:30 p.m. PDT/ 10:30 p.m. CDT/ 11:30pm EDT. In Twitter, share conversation with #1MPF and #howlround.
Perseverance Theatre has a long history of creating new work. A great deal of that new work embodies one of Perseverance’s core values: regional voice. In 35 years, Perseverance Theatre has premiered close to 70 new works. Two of the challenges of creating this work are the distance and isolation of being located in Alaska. These also serve as great opportunities to be unique in perspective and specific in terms of the type of work we do. This article is part of a series of four articles on Creative Placemaking publishing in conjunction with the 2014 ArtPlace America Grantee Summit. The Summit will livestream Mon, March 3 to Wed, March 5 on HowlRound.TV. In Twitter, use #ArtPlace to participate in the conversation. View the full series, schedule, and archive here: http://bit.ly/artplace2014.
Strange Attractor Theatre presented their latest original performance play, Enlightenment on E Floor North, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 6 July 2013 at 7:30 p.m. AKDT (Juneau) / 10:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 11:30 p.m. EDT (Providence, RI).
Simultaneous to Strange Attractor’s performance in Juneau, AK, they will host a live viewing party at the Empire Black Box at 95 Empire St in Providence, Rhode Island.
The first Alaskans have been telling the real story of the land for thousands of years. Yet so often, these are not the stories the rest of the world, or often even the rest of Alaska, knows outside of our communities.
