Dorcy Rugamba advocates for a theatre that enables us to embrace other histories and draw on the full breadth of human experience in order to adopt a universal perspective.
An evening of conversation, performance, and remembrance celebrating the release of Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging, edited by Benjamin Gillespie and Cindy Rosenthal with the late Elinor Fuchs.
This month’s diarist has been navigating government healthcare for his mother and grandmother, which requires relentless advocacy and follow-through. In addition to caring for them and working at multiple theatres, he is producing a solo show about his struggles getting his mother the care she needs.
Is there space for hope in climate crisis theatre? What happens when teachers are just as terrified as their students? These questions and others reverberate through Emily K. Harrison’s reflection on the process and performance of an intergenerational, devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene.
On 9 March 2026, TORCHES will continue with a conversation with award winning artist James Scruggs who creates live and virtual large-scale, topical, often interactive theatrical productions.
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.
Marc Robinson explores how innovative artists across disciplines—drama, dance, music, film, and visual art—responded to the events of 1976, before zeroing in on avant-garde theatre.
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.
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.
On 23 February, TORCHES will continue with a conversation with the prolific Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet. Both are award-winning multi-hyphenate artists who founded Talking Band over fifty years ago and have been working in New York City since.
A Symposium and Reception Celebrating Artistic Collaboration
Tuesday 17 February 2026
New York City
Featuring panels with Ira Weitzman (Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons), Cooper Howell (CATS: The Jellicle Ball), and Jonathan Kalb (Theatre for a New Audience) and performances from students of Pace University Musical Theatre.
Clown Gym applies the openness and responsiveness of clowning to its organizational structure. In this instructional guide, Michael Amendola explores Julia Proctor’s efforts to build a brave, inclusive, and joyful performance community.
How do we actually share leadership and not use co-leadership as a metaphor or aspiration? In the final episode, Tara and Martin reflect on the Bridge Between Realities project and break down what they learned about collaboration, leadership, and power.
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.
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.
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.
David Herskovits is the founding artistic director of Target Margin Theater (TMT). He has directed a broad range of work, classics and neglected older work, new opera and music-theatre, and adaptations of history and literature for TMT and other theatres, festivals, and universities all over.
Eisa Davis is a performer, composer, and writer. A recipient of a USA Artists Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, an AUDELCO, an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance and the Herb Alpert Award in Theater, Eisa was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Bulrusher.
What leads people to prison theater workshops? This episode begins six intertwined, first-person tales of these workshops, framed by a love story between Finn, who was incarcerated, and Jan, who cofacilitated.
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.
