This episode is a deep dive into Golden Thread’s evolution. Sahar Assaf reflects on leadership, hybridity, and making Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian theatre beyond stereotypes—centering community, complexity, and art as resistance in moments of crisis.
This episode is a deep dive into the founding of Golden Thread Productions with founding artistic director Torange Yeghiazarian—tracing how one artist’s vision grew into a movement that reshaped Middle Eastern theatre in the US.
The leadership team of Pink Fang reflects on the company’s renaming and new directions at the end of a three-year transition period that began with the retirement of Ping Chong and Bruce Allardice.
In Florida, state and local arts funding has become the site of an ideological battle. Zachary Rivera discusses the impact of these funding cuts—and the work of Floridian theatremakers who know that art is precious enough to fight for.
The US and Canada are in the middle of an unprecedented turnover of artistic leadership in the nonprofit theatre. This series aims to put a range of voices, issues, and ideas in play that can inform and reflect this historic changeover.
As a field, we talk frequently about the results of season planning, but we rarely are given the opportunity to examine the myriad decisions season programmers need to make.