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Playwright Catherine Trieschmann discusses tracking her writing output as her daughter tracks her reading.

Michael Bigelow Dixon introduces the Monsters on Stage Project from Translyvania University.

Robert Moskowitz discusses the needs for and advantages of creating a local theatre cooperative.

In the fourth installment, Michael Lueger interviews Archivist Morgen Stevens-Garmon about the intersection of theatre and museum archives in her career.

Part interview, part photo essay, part play excerpts, Rebecca Stevens goes in-depth with playwright Marcus Gardley on his two recent productions at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois. 

Daniel B. Thompson addresses the common practice of theatre companies misclassifying their workforce as independent contractors for tax purposes.

Holly L. Derr on Destiny of Desire by Karen Zacarías, Animal by Claire Lizzimore, Queens Girl in the World by Caleen Sinette Jennings, Women Laughing Alone with Salad by Sheila Callaghan, and Uprising by Gabrielle Fulton, all part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington, DC.

Playwright Joseph D’Ambrosi advocates the need for Christian theatre artists to reevaluate censoring plays for the sake of faith-based themes.

Erin Butcher writes about the difficult experiences she faced producing a show in a public park with an all-female cast and crew. 

Playwright Kitty Felde discusses the challenges of producing her play The Luckiest Girl, which features the Dutch character Zwarte Piet.

Actor Gardiner Comfort discusses his experiences as a performer and audience member with Tourette Syndrome, and how it has inspired aspects of his solo show The Elephant in Every Room I Enter.

Emerson College student Andrew Siañez-De La O writes about RareWork’s Theatre Company’s production of Caridad Svich’s Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues.

Jonathan Mandell explores how several recent works on New York Stages portray history and the questions they raise. 

Henrik Eger reports on the trajectory of the Catholic docudrama Full of Grace from vision of the late Bishop Joseph Sullivan of Brooklyn to the stage in Philadelphia.

In this first installment, Artistic Director Jeffrey Carpenter discusses the origins of Bricolage’s OjO: The Next Generation of Travel performance.

Brian Sonia-Wallace writes about his experience at the Latino/a Play Project at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Effy Redman on Love, Sex, and Death in the Amazon by Robert Murphy, the inaugural production of Collider Theater Company, in New York City.