Featured Contributors, Winter 2025
The writers behind a feature on high school theatre inspiration and a production notebook for a new musical.
Winter 2025
Executive Letter: Inheriting Winter
A TCG co-executive director reminds us in our Winter 2025 issue that even in the middle of winter, it’s still possible to protest, organize, and cultivate a garden of hope for the future.
Editor’s Note: Our Still-Unfolding Story
Our 2025 Winter issue launches during uncertain times—but they are precedented.
Schooled: Where Young People Are Catching the Theatre Bug
At high school theatre programs big and small, well funded and not, educators are stoking excitement and building a future, both for their students and for the art form.
Unfinished Business: What Theatre Schools Should Also Be Teaching
Theatre students, taught to do the job, deserve to learn more about how to get the job.
Fornés Unleashed
A brief introduction to the Fornés playwriting method, with a condensed exercise adapted by Migdalia Cruz from María Irene Fornés’s original lab at INTAR.
Garden Variety Grown From ‘Fifty Boxes of Earth’
A response to Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ Ankita Raturi’s world premiere play explores what it means to try to survive in a new place when those already there treat you as a monster.
Peace, Rage, and Humor in ‘Bust’
In Zora Howard’s new play, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, a relaxing evening is interrupted by an altercation with the police.
Teaching the Moment: A Roundtable With 5 Educators
The world outside can’t help but enter the classroom, which offers both a challenge and an opportunity to make theatre training more meaningful.
People to Watch: Brian Stokes Mitchell
The versatile actor-singer talks about theoretical physics, his childhood mentors, and Jacob Collier.
