Category Archives: Theatre Futures

Support Your Local Native Theatre Artists

How new-work development and proactive hiring can solve the problem of near-zero Native representation on U.S. stages.

The challenge of declining attendance also presents an opportunity for theatres to diversify and expand their reach and impact.

Stationed at the center of the production process, stage managers are uniquely positioned to educate, facilitate, and reset expectations.

While finding ways to survive in a system hostile to artmaking, we can also make liberatory practices part of our organizational culture.

Inclusion in the theatre begins, but doesn’t end, with matching diverse programming and new audiences.

Theatre workers unite at the intersection of surplus and scarcity.

For theatre to keep up with community and with the times, we need new ways to support writers and their work.

How an Atlanta company stages gatherings where the conversations are as important as the plays.

With support from the Ford Foundation, Theatre Futures invites thought leaders in the arts and beyond to reflect on our next chapter.

The question isn’t whether we can break out of theatre’s dominant paradigms but how—and who will lead the charge.