Drone Plays: There’s Something in the Air
Two new one-woman plays dramatize the unique stress and ethical pitfalls of fighting in the Chair Force.
Category Archives: Features
Bringing It All Back Home to Armenia
My play about the 1915 genocide, seen and developed on U.S. stages, is now being presented in the language and home of my ancestors.
Theatre of the Americas, Both Ancient and New
We share more than colonial history with Central and South America; we also share theatrical traditions. But it can take a little re-exploration to map them.
It’s Sunrise in Cuba. Will the Light Reach the Stage?
With the long-awaited normalization of U.S./Cuba relations, theatre artists may be uniquely poised to make the most of the new climate of exchange.
Chilean Theatre: Robust Engagement With History as It’s Lived
Far from detached or academic, the work on offer at the Santiago a Mil festival showed theatremakers in the thick of politics, race and culture.
Where Art Leads the Way: Carmen Romero’s Journey with Santiago a Mil
The festival founder talks about keeping theatre vital in a country recovering from dictatorship and facing new challenges.
Sowing Theatrical Seeds Across the U.S./Mexico Border
Stateside companies form collaborations with theatres based in Mexico, and vice versa, creating a fertile dynamic for art and change.
Cross-Border Collaborations: A Selective Sampling
Some companies that have made U.S./Mexico theatrical exchanges central to their work.
Sure, ‘Hamilton’ Is a Game-Changer, But Whose Game?
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s subversive new hip-hop history musical richly deserves the acclaim. Here’s hoping it paves the way for more stories of, by and for the hip-hop generation.
Humana Festival 2015 Stretched Plays, and Audiences, to Their Breaking Point
A collection of not-so-straight plays, an ensemble-devised work and an African-American living-room play made up the main slate at Actors Theatre’s annual new-play gathering.
