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Podcast
Golden Thread at Thirty: Looking Beyond 2026
by Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson
28 May 2026
Essay
I Don’t Know How She Hosts Lunar New Year During a Rehearsal Week
by Artist Caregiver
13 May 2026
Essay
Artists Lead the Way at the 2026 Under the Radar Symposium
by Ashley Malafronte
4 May 2026
A promotional graphic for Kunafa and Shay.
Podcast
16 April 2026

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.

A promotional graphic for Kunafa and Shay.
Podcast
2 April 2026

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.

Event poster for Black Women Directors, Makers, Leaders on Brilliance, Glass Ceilings, What's Next
Video

Part of the On Record series produced by the Network of Ensemble Theaters

Saturday 28 March 2026
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Part of NETWeek Chicago, this public conversation brings together Black women who direct, devise, and lead in Chicago, and is in partnership with artEquityCulture Change LabHowlRoundLeague of Chicago TheatresTheatre Communications Group(X) Collective, and more.

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Essay
9 March 2026

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.  

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Essay
2 March 2026

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. 

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Series

Under the Radar Symposium 2024

This series combines content from and about the 2024 Under the Radar Symposium, produced by the Under the Radar Festival and ArkType in partnership with the International Producing Commons (IPC), Creative and Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA), and HowlRound Theatre Commons. 

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Series

The Changeover

Leadership in Transition

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. 

Series

The OjO Experience

Jeffrey Caprenter details Ojo, an immersive experience which aspires toward a traveling, non-visual theatre.

Series

Season Planning

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.

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