Community-Engaged Theatre

RJ Maccani discusses learning through Foundery Theatre’s projects the distinct ways artists and social justice organizers can come together to make change.

In this installment, Aaron Carter offers a brief overview of The Lab at Steppenwolf.

Kacy O’Brien wondered what a conference would look like if it was planned as one long coffee break. How would the results compare to traditional break-out sessions?

Cripple Creek Theatre has partnered with other organizations in order to better sustain their company in a world that no longer solely depends on traditional fiscal support.

Dan Swern gives a historical overview of New Jersey's cultural identity and arts access. 

An introduction into the examination of what it means to be “local” or be in the “community” inspired by people’s experience to find home in one to two neighborhoods.

The budding identity of American regional theater is fresh ensembles creating devised work that answers why with these people, in this place.

David Dower examines the Culture Coin, and provides a sneak peek into a world where this new currency replaces cash in the theater industry.

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Todd London's keynote address at the NoPassport Conference in New York City, March 1st 2013.

David Weiner writes about his way of combatting the dearth of young theater professionals: introducing students to the arts via Words Alive.

Brandon Woolf reflects on the cultural clashes and queer-antagonistic responses to the public performance of UtopiaTM by the ensemble of Shakespeare im Park Berlin in Görlitzer Park.

Creating and producing social advocacy theatre faces many roadblocks. Emily Freeman learned that exercising relentlessness while practicing love is the best way to find an audience.

Randals writes about theatre created by women who have personal relationships with America’s criminal justice system who seek to inform their audiences to incarceration’s effects.

Lana Lesley shares insight on how Rude Mechs has creatively promoted audience engagement in their past productions.

Liza Zenni surveys the impact arts have in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Laura Shamas on the steps she and Jennie Webb took to create of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, and the lessons they have learned along the way.

LaMoine MacLaughlin, Executive Director of the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts in rural Wisconsin writes about the 23 years of the organizaiton, and how it fits into his community.

Donna Neuwirth describes the integration of culture and agriculture at the Wormfarm Institute in Wisconsin.

David Dower, the Co- Artistic Director of ArtsEmerson, on the differnece between Art and Entertainment, and the nessisity to create work that includes both.

Melanie Joseph, the Artistic Director of the Foundry Theater, examines what it means to be an artist and an active citizen.