Racism Shouldn’t Have to Be My Muse
Black trauma demands and deserves creative expression, but our lives are about so much more than tragedy.
Category Archives: Opinion
An Open Letter to the Senators of the 116th Congress: Fund the Arts
The arts are not a luxury but a huge economic engine for America’s cities and towns, and a reflection of our national culture. They deserve your unstinting support.
Artists of the World, Unite!
As we face another Depression, can we dream of a new Federal Theatre Project? Any such hope begins with political organizing onstage and off.
About Alice, or When Social Distancing Ends
In this excerpt from a new journal by theatre artists, the author recounts how she confronted racism in a loved one with more love.
A New World Awaits Us
For Black theatre artists, this is a time for healing; for our white counterparts, it is a time of reckoning. Can we make this moment count?
‘Find Joy in the Destruction of the Lie’
The complete text of speeches by Jamil Jude, Monique Holt, and Nikkole Salter that opened last week’s TCG 2020 virtual conference.
Hath Not a Woman Eyes? How a Female Shylock Changes ‘The Merchant of Venice’
For a production last year in Calgary, a gender switch illuminated the Shakespeare play’s conflicts in fresh and troubling ways.
Where Have All the Festivals Gone? A January Wrap-Up
Though American Realness and COIL are sorely missed, there was much international work to take in at this year’s Under the Radar and Exponential fests.
A ‘West Side Story’ That Resets the Choreographic Balance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s pared-down choreography may depart from Jerome Robbins’s original steps, but is it telling the same story?
Cathedrals Made of Bricks
Caryl Churchill is the only writer working now who says and does something genuinely new with each new play.
