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Black Survival and Cyclical Fate in Hang Time
by Ciaran Short
4 June 2026
Essay
Arts Curators Reaching Back, Carrying Forward
by Martine Dennewald
7 May 2026
Essay
A Sojourner Speaks
by Daniel Alexander Jones
6 May 2026
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Video

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 30 September 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 23 September 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Screenings and Conversation with European Theatre Artist Milo Rau

Monday 23 September 2024
New York City

Two screenings of productions in Rau's myth meets modern-day activism trilogy will be accompanied by a conversation about art and resistance with Rau and Cameroonian/Italian activist and writer Yvan Sagnet.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 9 September 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Sharing Our Stories About Actor, Director, Producer, and Global Theatre Connector Philip Arnoult

Saturday 7 September 2024
New York City

Join us this Saturday, 7 September, as Philip Arnoult’s family, friends, and collaborators gather at the Baltimore Theatre Project to celebrate his life and work through his way of connecting: telling stories.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 26 August 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Video

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 19 August
New York City

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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A Conference Exploring the Work of Renowned US Theatre Director and Visual Artist Robert Wilson

Monday 5 August to Thursday 8 August
New York City

In celebration of Wilson’s extraordinary career, we invited scholars, critics, and practitioners to contribute to a conference exploring the diverse aspects of his transformative vision and artistic practice. The conference combined in-person and virtual talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. 

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 15 July 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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Video

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 1 July 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

two actors in aprons sit on stage next to an actor standing with his back to them.
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Panels and Keynotes from Indigenous Directors and Playwrights

Friday 28 June 2024
Rochester, NY

The Indigenous Theatre Symposium will feature keynote remarks from Santee Smith (Kahnyen’kehàka Nation, Turtle Clan), artistic director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre; an Indigenous Playwrights Panel Conversation with creatives such as DeLanna Studi (Cherokee) who Geva audiences got to know through her play And So We Walked last season and who will be Geva Theatre’s 2024/26 artist in residence; a film screening of Unseen Tears; as well as a special panel composed of young Native playwrights presented in collaboration with Native Voices. 

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Essay
18 June 2024

In the final installment of this two-part conversation, artists from the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine and Al Límite Collective in New York City come together to discuss the performance of Youth Against Invasion in the Cultural Resistance March, the Freedom Theatre’s global impact, and hopes for the future of the Freedom Theatre.

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Video

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 17 June 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

A zoom meeting featuring the authors of Youth Against Invastion.
Essay
17 June 2024

In the first installment of this two-part conversation, artists from The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine and Al Límite Collective in New York City come together to discuss the work of The Freedom Theatre and its school and the creation of Youth Against Invasion.

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Video

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 10 June 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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Video

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 3 June 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

headshot of René Pollesch.
Video

An Evening Celebrating the Life and Work of the Late Playwright and Director

Thursday 30 May 2024
New York City

New York theatre artist Matt Gasda and his ensemble from the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research will be joined by David Levine for readings of two Pollesch plays Heidi Hoh, translated by Rose Riggs, and Insourcing ..., translated by David Tushingham.

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Video

The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge

Thursday 23 May 2024
New York City

The Segal Center celebrates the publication of a new book on underground culture and performance at the infamous Pyramid Club. A panel with John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, and others.

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A Panel Conversation

Thursday 23 May 2024
New York City

Segal Center celebrates the history of legendary CLUB 57. In 1978, a Polish emigré Stanley Strychacki rented a basement space of the Holy Cross Polish National Church at 57 St. Marks’ Place with an intention "to create an environment for artists so they could meet, collaborate, and create.”

A man plays a guitar in front of a microphone.
Essay
15 May 2024

Beto O’Byrne discusses the work of three theatre artists in New York whose acts of cultural resistance contribute to the movement for a free Palestine.

headshots of ten playwrights.
Video

Displacement Plays from Uganda, Lebanon, West Africa, Haiti and Ukranian Playwrights Project

Monday 13 May 2024
New York City

Join us for an evening of plays by nine writers who personally experienced displacement, migration, and war. Alongside four thirty-minute pieces, we will hear shorter ten-minute works by five young Ukrainian writers.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 13 May 2024

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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Presented by ART/New York

Monday 6 May 2024

Notes from the Field: A Frank Conversation on Pay Equity in the American Theatre is the first session in a three-part series on Pay Equity with A.R.T/New York.

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Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse’s Texts for Performance in New York, 2004 to the present

Monday 6 May 2024
New York

The Segal Center presents a durational event: five plays from Jon Fosse in collaboration with Oslo Elsewhere.

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A livestream discussion with Amleta founder Monica Faggiani

Friday 3 May 2024

Join us for a discussion with Amleta founder, Monica Faggiani, during the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival's 2024 program. 

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