In Call for National Arts Support, Don’t Overlook Young Audiences
The soul-healing and community-building qualities of children’s theatre, a key part of the Federal Theatre Project, should be central to any new deal for the arts.
Opinion
Doug and ‘Hades’: A Remembrance
Dramaturg Doug Langworthy shone his light on the work of others, but it finally couldn’t lead him out of his own private darkness.
Moments in an American Town
Catching a glimpse of the beloved community in a quirky, inclusive corner of the U.S.
‘Fefu’ and Her Pleasures
How Fornés’s landmark play can teach us to imagine different ways of living, fighting, and making theatre.
What Stacey Abrams Can Teach Us About Changing Our Theatres
She used her anger at a system that betrayed its ideals as fuel to organize against it. We can and should do the same.
Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them
Nonprofit theatre boards are unrepresentative, out of touch, and more often oppressive than supportive. We can and must do this better.
Wolf at the Door: How Musicals Helped Me Live the Size of My Feelings
How the queerness of fairy tales and musicals, once coded and now more open, has always spoken—and sung—directly to me.
A Theatre of Circumstance, or, From Stuck to Strength
Looking toward a post-COVID horizon, we must plan for adjustment, redefinition, and a new kind of relevance.
Let’s Be Real: These Programs Won’t End Racism at Your Theatre
Ending white supremacy at your institution requires an organization-wide commitment to change in both culture and policy.
Change in the American Theatre Begins and Ends Outside the Theatre
The work of organizing for a better world is already being done, and theatres have the chance—and the responsibility—to join it.
