Adventuring Through Chicago’s Holiday Offerings
As we enter the holiday season, we celebrate taking risks on potentially life-changing works.
Features
Arts Are the Prescription We Need, Now More Than Ever
We don’t just get aesthetic or intellectual benefits from the expressive and performing arts—they can also be literally healing.
6 Theatre Workers You Should Know
This L.A.-focused roundup includes a writer-director, a patron services manager, a scenic painter, an actor who’s also a marketing director, and more.
Not Always a Punchline: Ryan J. Haddad’s ‘Dark Disabled Stories’
In his latest play, published in full in our Fall print edition, the writer/performer probes implicit ableism and the assumptions we make about people we’ll never really know.
Adrianna Desier Durantt’s Growing Curiosity
With a wealth of experience in arts administration and branding, Durantt joins her neighborhood theatre ready to help its next stage of growth.
Irondale, Where the Process Is the Play
The 40-year-old Brooklyn company has spent the year exploring and interweaving major plays of the 20th century, from Glaspell to Williams to Hansberry. Their current show is ‘American Blues.’
Shirley Jo Finney Lifted Every Soul
The late director was fluent in matters spiritual, emotional, and textual.
Serious Play: The Art of Wafaa Bilal and Tasneem Mandviwala
When a painter and a performance artist work with theatres, all parties learn lessons about experience, engagement, and ecstasy.
Superheroes on Native Land, Part I
How a Lakota playwright, 7 Indigenous actors, and an L.A.-based ensemble survived a pandemic, crossed thousands of prairie miles, and confronted centuries of history to make a play.
The Body Politic in Josep Maria Miró’s Plays
The Spanish dramatist, now in residency with NYC’s PlayCo, talks about his love for Pinter, his close work with translators, and the radical transformations made possible by live theatre.
