Category Archives: Opinion

Moments in an American Town

Catching a glimpse of the beloved community in a quirky, inclusive corner of the U.S.

How Fornés’s landmark play can teach us to imagine different ways of living, fighting, and making theatre.

She used her anger at a system that betrayed its ideals as fuel to organize against it. We can and should do the same.

Nonprofit theatre boards are unrepresentative, out of touch, and more often oppressive than supportive. We can and must do this better.

How the queerness of fairy tales and musicals, once coded and now more open, has always spoken—and sung—directly to me.

Looking toward a post-COVID horizon, we must plan for adjustment, redefinition, and a new kind of relevance.

Ending white supremacy at your institution requires an organization-wide commitment to change in both culture and policy.

The work of organizing for a better world is already being done, and theatres have the chance—and the responsibility—to join it.

Too often, comfort with culturally inappropriate casting starts in educational settings—precisely the places these practices should be interrogated.

Changing my headshot opened my eyes to the ways I’m seen—and remain unseen.