Ja’Mel Ashely Finds a Space to Stand in His Full Identity
In ‘i need space,’ a new digital series from Donja R. Love, Ashely gets the chance to play a Black, trans, and HIV-positive character whose experience harmonizes with his own.
Category Archives: Previews
A Simple Task to Reframe Deaf Narratives
The new play ‘Trash’ is part of IRT Theatre’s efforts to make Deaf stories and artists a part of everyday theatrical storytelling and practice.
Beaufield Berry Brings It All Back Home
The Omaha-based playwright never felt alone as she wrote her new family play ‘In the Upper Room,’ bowing next week in Denver.
Paul Williams Rediscovers the Fun in ‘Emmet Otter’
The songwriter talks about adapting his beloved Muppet musical for the stage, about never growing up, and about the things you can learn from an audience.
A Wild Child’s Identity Crisis: Cherdonna Shinatra Falls Into ‘The Doll Pit’
Jody Kuehner’s irreverent, form-breaking alter ego is back with a more contemplative but no less challenging new dance-theatre-film.
Downtown, Everything’s Waiting for You
As live theatre returns to New York City, 2 unique efforts are banking on audiences bringing life back to the sparsely occupied financial district.
‘CO2020’: Theatrical Postcards From a Rocky Year in Colorado
How Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company crowdsourced a docutheatre piece on how a year of COVID, racist violence and protest, and political division felt in their state.
‘Disclaimer’ Turns the Spotlight on Its Audience
Can a culturally appropriative murder mystery in the guise of a cooking class prevent war with Iran? Piehole’s interactive new Zoom play aims to find out.
A ‘[hieroglyph]’ From a Prior Apocalypse
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and San Francisco Playhouse come together for a filmed co-production of Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s play.
Home Theatre, Literally
Theatre Horizon’s Art Houses program partners with local families to devise virtual performances on their home turf.
