Upcoming Livestreams

On 8 June 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with Susan Bernfield, a playwright and the artistic director and producer of the award-winning New Georges.

Join New Perspectives Theatre Company’s Gilder-Coigney International Theatre Forum for a live international panel bringing together artists from the second round of Theatre From The Streets. What has changed? What has remained the same? How might shifts in Hungary resonate with artists and activists across the globe?

What does it mean to be intentional when writing applied, closet dramas? How do we articulate—and interrogate—the purpose behind our work?

The One Love Method is a teaching and learning method for racial-justice theatre. Dr. Ayshia will walk participants through a healing session as an example of how the method can be used in the theatre classroom, rehearsal room and beyond.

IETM Oulu Plenary Meeting 2026 livestreams the opening session which confronts the power structures embedded in arts funding as well as livestreams the "pitchorama".

On 15 June 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with composer and performer Kamala Sankaram, who moves freely between the worlds of experimental music, sound installation, and contemporary opera.

When we can no longer enter the field, how do we grapple with the ethical layers to our decisions about the real-world contexts our texts address?

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 22 June 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the glorious award-winning theatre artist and Patron Saint of Hybridity, Taylor Mac.

Applied theatre has always been about people: whom it's for, whom it's with. How do these questions transform when the work moves from the field to the page?

What might applied playwriting actually look like, and what might it do that neither applied theatre nor conventional playwriting can do alone?

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.

The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This volume focuses on young characters whose ages range from twelve to late twenties.

What happens when we release the idea that dramatic texts must conform to predetermined durations and allow them, like life itself, to take the time they need?