A Manifesto for the Future Stage: Performance Is a Human Right
How we can make the most of the possibilities of liveness, technology, and human innovation.
Category Archives: What Is To Be Done
How U.S. States Could Fund Repertory Resident Theatres
Though much talk has surrounded possible federal funding, let’s imagine a world based in repertory theatre and funding from the state level.
Does Your Arts Organization Deserve to Come Back?
If you haven’t committed to dismantling racism and ending harassment, don’t rush to reopen your doors.
The Road Less Chosen and the Pathway Unknown
How our theatre got through a trying and bewildering year, and is poised to move forward this year and beyond.
What Is Theatre Invested In? A Vision for a Regenerative Future
Where we put our time, our money, and attention needs to change, can change, and is already changing.
Whose Professionalism Matters?
The theatre field’s unexamined standards and hierarchies are too frequently oppressive, exploitative, and white supremacist. Here’s how we can change them.
Centering Joy: Resolutions for a New Year, and a New Field
Rebuilding will be challenging, but we must embrace abundance and celebrate possibility to create a better vision for the future.
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.
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.
