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A Conversation with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley / Odin Teatret
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A Conversation with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley / Odin Teatret
Theatre as Politics by Other Means: Floating Islands, Transit Next Forum, and the Magdalena Project
Tuesday 30 May 2023
New York City
A Conversation on Anti-Racism
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A Conversation on Anti-Racism
An Evening to Discuss Findings, Resources, and Questions that Arose from the Research of the Student Anti-Racism Committee
Thursday 18 May 2023
New York City
Book Talk: The Art of Assembly: Political Theatre Today
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Book Talk: The Art of Assembly: Political Theatre Today
Navigating the Space Between Representation and Participation
Thursday 4 May 2023
New York City
Portraits of  Julia Varley and Eugenio Barba.
A Conversation with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley / Odin Teatret
Video

A Conversation with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley / Odin Teatret

Theatre as Politics by Other Means: Floating Islands, Transit Next Forum, and the Magdalena Project

Tuesday 30 May 2023
New York City

Join us for a talk with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley about their current projects, including the 2022 Living Archive Floating Islands project, conceived by Eugenio, which will be installed this year at the Bernardini Library in Lecce, Italy, and Transit Next Forum—Theatre and Women, a collective created by Julia to raise opportunities for women in theatre and increase the awareness of women’s contribution to contemporary theatre.

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A Conversation on Anti-Racism
Video

A Conversation on Anti-Racism

An Evening to Discuss Findings, Resources, and Questions that Arose from the Research of the Student Anti-Racism Committee

Thursday 18 May 2023
New York City

Join us for an evening with the PhD students from the theatre department and others at the GC CUNY to share, reflect, and discuss findings, resources, and questions that arose in three years of research during the time of COVID for the student anti-racism committee. Topics will include theory and pedagogy, history and practices, plays, anti-racism trainings, CUNY resources, and outside organizations and resources.

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Book Talk: The Art of Assembly: Political Theatre Today
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Book Talk: The Art of Assembly: Political Theatre Today

Navigating the Space Between Representation and Participation

Thursday 4 May 2023
New York City

Join us for a Zoom talk with author and curator Florian Malzacher to discuss the upcoming Segal Center publication The Art of Assembly: Political Theatre Today. The Art of Assembly surveys theatre today to demonstrate its political potential in both form and content.

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The Living Presence of Our History: Part VIII
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The Living Presence of Our History: Part VIII

A Conversation with Indigenous Authors Regarding Representation in Literature

Sunday 26 March 2023
Massachusetts, United States

A panel of scholars and local Indigenous authors will discuss the importance of our stories in literature. We will explore how these narratives affect Native and non-Native communities today and the possible steps to educate, decolonize, and make changes using an Indigenous lens.

book cover of A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography.
Book Talk with Michael Kliën and Cory Tamler
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Book Talk with Michael Kliën and Cory Tamler

A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography

Monday 20 March 2023
New York City

Artist and writer Cory Tamler holds the container, editing together her memories of her own experiences as a participant in parliament, excerpts from conversations with Kliën and from his personal archive, theoretical propositions for the way parliament could go to work in the world, and reflections from other participants in parliament over the years.

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Freedom Talk at Archives and Resistance
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Freedom Talk at Archives and Resistance

How Archives and Archival Interventions Can Challenge Power

Friday 18 November 2022
Belarus

Safe Havens Freedom Talks (SH|FT) presented a Freedom Talk at Archives and Resistance livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Friday 18 November 2022 at 8:30 a.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 13:30 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 2:30 p.m. CET (Stockholm, UTC +1).

event poster for The Novelist as Knowledge Keeper Safe Havens Freedom Talk.
Freedom Talk: The Importance of Storytelling
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Freedom Talk: The Importance of Storytelling

The Novelist as Knowledge Keeper

Friday 14 October 2022
South Africa

Safe Havens Freedom Talks (SH|FT) presented an Freedom Talk: The Novelist as Knowledge Keeper livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 14 October 2022 at 8:30 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 12:30 UTC / 2:30 p.m. SAST (Capetown, UTC +2).

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SEGAL TALKS with Theresa Smalec
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SEGAL TALKS with Theresa Smalec

A conversation about Smalec’s new book: Ron Vawter’s Life in Performance

Monday 29 November 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS, a conversation about curating, producing, and presenting theatre and performance in the time of COVID with Theresa Smalec, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network on Monday 29 November 2021 at 9 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 12 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 17:00 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 18:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

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SEGAL TALKS with Carol Martin
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SEGAL TALKS with Carol Martin

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Thursday 27 May 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Carol Martin livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 27 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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The 2021 Edwin Booth Award: Diana Taylor
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The 2021 Edwin Booth Award: Diana Taylor

Celebrating a Lifetime of Activism within Academia

Friday 14 May 2021
United States

The Doctoral Theatre Students’ Association in collaboration with The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented the 2021 Edwin Booth Award: Diana Taylor livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday May 14 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

Set of Double Edge Theatre's production of "Leonora, la maga y la maestra".
Leonora Carrington and the Theatre
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Leonora Carrington and the Theatre

With Susan Aberth and Double Edge Theatre

Sunday 7 March 2021
United States

Double Edge Theatre presented a conversation between Double Edge Artistic Director Stacy Klein and renowned Surrealist scholar Dr. Susan L. Aberth livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 7 March 2021 at 12 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 2 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 3 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5).

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Expanding Where, Why, How, and With Whom Artists in the United States Work
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Expanding Where, Why, How, and With Whom Artists in the United States Work

Invitation for Participatory Research

6 May 2020

Jan Cohen-Cruz invites theatremakers working in community-based and socially engaged art in the United States to take part in research about commonalities across the field, the practices and principles adhered to, where people work and with whom, and more.

two graphs: Are at least half the characters specified as females by the playwright. Are at least half of the characters specified as non-white by the playwright?
What Our New Plays Really Look Like
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What Our New Plays Really Look Like

A Statistical Guide to US World Premieres in the 2019–20 Season

21 October 2019

Marshall Botvinick shares the results of the research he undertook about new plays premiering across the United States in the 2019–20 season: who is being produced, what characters are appearing on stage, and what forms and themes are common.