Featured Contributors, Spring 2024
A data-driven look at subscriptions, and the glass-half-full look at some theatres that are beating the odds in a time of crisis.
Spring 2024
Who It’s All For
With our Spring issue, we’ve turned our focus away from the stage to the house to consider the audience.
Wish You Were Here
A roundtable on how to create radically welcoming access at the theatre.
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.
