Wish You Were Here
A roundtable on how to create radically welcoming access at the theatre.
Category Archives: Issue
Leaders in a Time of Transformation
Reflections on what’s bringing joy, and a look at where we’ll meet the next challenge.
All the Lonely People
We say theatre can be healing, but what if that were literally true?
Subscriptions Are Dead, Long Live Subscriptions!
Theatres are taking a hard look at a well-worn patron model, and coming to different conclusions about its usefulness.
Come As You Are
Theatre is all about human behavior. Is it time to let audiences be fully human too?
How the Wolf Survives
When La Liga Teatro Elástico came to Chicago, they built a puppet parade to dramatize our ecological interdependence.
When Kwame Was Stokely
In a new play at Chicago’s Court Theatre, playwright Nambi E. Kelley looks for the human being—and the humor—in a Civil Rights legend.
Black Out: An Ongoing National Movement of Audience Curation
Led initially by playwrights Dominique Morisseau and Jeremy O. Harris, Black affinity nights are proliferating at theatres across the U.S.
‘The Preacher’s Wife’ Gets Another Amen
Tituss Burgess and Azie Dungey discuss faith, adapting a classic, and loving musical theatre.
Sometimes—There Are Puppets—So Quickly
‘The Felt Menagerie’ at the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans puts a comic spin on the playwright’s tragic characters.
