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Podcast
On Teaching Work Ethic
by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, Jennifer Blackmer, Marcus Lane
26 March 2024
Essay
Can’t Do Theatre by Yourself
by Christin Eve Cato, Jorge Piña
23 January 2024
Essay
On Theatre, Home, and Housing 
by Jan Cohen-Cruz
16 January 2024
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Series

Master Classes

With the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation

Pangea World Theater and Art2Action present the next installment of the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation.

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Series

Producing Ethically in 2021

What does it mean to produce ethically in 2021?

This series was originally called Producing Ethically in 2020. But then New Years happened, and we realized we had so much more to talk about! So this is a continuation of the series: welcome to Producing Ethically in 2021.

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Series

Taylor Talks

HERE Resident Artists talk art & process with Taylor Mac

Join Taylor Mac for a glimpse into the creative process and gain insight into exciting new multidisciplinary work coming out of the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP).

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Series

The Stories Women Carry

Creative Practice of African Women from the Continent

The 6-episode season features leading writers, poets, directors, producers and interdisciplinary theatre-makers who will share their artistic practices and methodologies.

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Series

NO SUMMARY

Golden Thread presents online conversations with artists that don’t fit in a Box

NO SUMMARY is a curated online series that invites artists of Middle Eastern and North African heritage to discuss the many layers of their identity and how it impacts their work and artistic choices.

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Series

NBT @ HOME Presents An "Unbought & Unbossed" Conversation

A digital conversation series about the dynamic legacy of Shirley Chisholm and reclaiming our vote.

In tandem with its curated micro-commission series, "Unbought & Unbossed: Reclaiming Our Vote," National Black Theatre is hosting three NBT @ HOME conversations with its commissioned artists as well as community leaders and historians about the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, combating voter suppression, and our power to reclaim our vote.

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Series

The Living Presence of Our History

Presented by The Ohketeau Cultural Center and Double Edge Theatre

On the history and presence of the Nipmuc and other Tribes in Ashfield, Massachusetts and the surrounding areas.

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Series

(Re)Imagine Theater: Panel Series

A panel series by Seattle Rep that brings artists and community leaders together

Without constraints, what do we want theater to look like?

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Series

Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists ConFest Virtual Series

Kuʻu ʻĀina, Kuʻu Piko, Kuʻu Kahua - Return to the Source

The virtual series will explore the theme of the upcoming 7th Annual Asian American Theater Festival & Conference (ConFest) “Kuʻu ʻĀina, Kuʻu Piko, Kuʻu Kahua - Return to the Source” in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi in May 2021, which centers the voices of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander theater practitioners, and will feature the thriving theater community of Hawaiʻi, where Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander faces on stage are the norm, not the exception.

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Series

PWC Summer In Conversation Series

With Playwrights' Center Minneapolis

Gain insight and knowledge through these candid discussions where you'll have the opportunity to not only hear from some of our leading artists as they discuss our world today and new ways of thinking about writing and theater, but also ask questions.

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Series

National Black Theatre @ Home — Founder's Month

A letter to the future

⁣About the Series: NBT @ HOME: Founder’s Month Edition is a four-part conversations series with artists and NBT Family around Dr. Barbara Ann Teer's legacy.

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Series

Daughters of Lorraine Podcast

This podcast centers and privileges the narratives of Black theatremakers, scholars, and audiences while also underscoring the need for understanding the influence of Black theatre on the American theatre landscape.

Series

Alaska Native Theatre

The first Alaskans have been telling the real story of the land for thousands of years. Yet so often, these are not the stories the rest of the world, or often even the rest of Alaska, knows outside of our communities.

Series

Decolonizing Theatre Practice / Decolonarizar Practicas de Teatro

This series explores ways in which theatre artists can decolonize their practice and the field.

Series

Strange Eventful History by Michael Lueger

Michael Lueger dissects different topics from theatrical history.

Series

Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee is well known as the Music City, but the rest of the performing arts scene doesn't get much attention. This series, highlighting Nashville’s lively artistic community, built on a foundation of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Essay

Reflections Post-Harvey Weinstein

14 November 2017

Lydia Stryk adds to the conversation on sexual harassment by people in power, speaking up about her experiences with sexual harassment and humiliation in the theatre.

Series

Chronic Theatremakers

A series of interviews with theatremakers who have chronic illnesses.

Essay

A Talk with Christian Appel and Renée Imperato of the TransGenerational Theatre Project

24 August 2017

Patty Gone interviews Christian Appel and Renée Imperato about how they used applied theatre, writing, and utopian world-envisioning to create the all-trans, ensemble- based TransGenerational Theatre Project in NYC. 

Series

Why Theatre?

Playwright Lauren M. Gunderson teaches a series of playwriting classes focused on the question of "Why theatre?"

Series

Interning for The Theater Offensive by Tatiana Gil and Max Cerci

Theatre artists Tatiana Gil and Max Cerci speak on their experience working at the Theater Offensive as True Color Expansion Interns.

Series

Entrepreneurial Mindset Series by Seth Lepore

Series

SitRep: Veterans and Theatre

This blog follows the development of TCG's new Veterans and Theatre Institute.

Series

Getting Down with Barrio Stories

A series discussing the collaborative and creative process of Barrio Stories.

Series

Where the Grass is Always Greener

This series explores the exciting new play development happening along the US/Canada border.

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