Work/Life Balance Is Everyone’s Urgent Business Now
As we face the COVID crisis, our field has a chance to restructure itself around human needs. Caregivers can lead the way.
Category Archives: Special Section
In Search of a Space to Breathe
Deprived of the relief of going to a job I love, I am forced to face the contradictions of co-parenting with an ex.
Theatre Without Humanity Isn’t Either
Among the best practices that are central to our field: taking care of the caregivers.
Theatre or Family: We Shouldn’t Have to Choose
How to build support for parent artists at U.S. theatres? First let’s build a movement.
‘A Happy, Fulfilled Mother Is a Good Mother’
Emily Mann and Mary Hodges discuss their experiences as working parent artists, and the hard-won wisdom they’ve gleaned along the way.
Kids in the Hall
How an Off-Broadway company planned and implemented a radical parent inclusion project.
Caregiver Resources
A guide compiled by Parent Artist Advocacy League for Performing Arts + Media.
Theatre and the Last Pandemic
In 1918 an outbreak of influenza killed millions and shuttered U.S. theatres—and then one day it was gone.
The Zoom Where It Happens
Academic theatre programs quickly adjust to remote learning in the age of COVID-19.
Theatre Is Good at World-Building, How About World-Saving?
Working for a more sustainable, integral life onstage and off may be its own reward.
