How ‘Wild Home’ Stages, and Advances, the Fight Against Fossil Fuels
Bringing together activists, citizens, and theatremakers to dramatize extraction’s impact on local communities, this unique theatre project has created a community all its own.
All Stories About activism
WAM Theatre Co-Founder Kristen van Ginhoven to Step Down
After 14 years with the arts activism organization, its producing artistic director will leave at the end of 2023.
Christina Anderson Wades Into the History of Swimming Pool Segregation
In ‘the ripple, the wave that carried me home,’ next playing at Kansas City Rep and Yale Rep, this busy playwright pens another piece inspired by history.
Let’s Put on a Phone Bank!
How a trio of New York theatre workers joined forces to create Amplifying Activists Together, a weekly online gathering to advance progressive causes.
Waterwell Launches National Series, ‘The Flores Exhibits’
The series highlights severe and inhumane conditions at U.S. immigration detention centers.
John O’Neal’s Invitation to Make the World a Better Place
Civil Rights activism and theatre were integrally intertwined in the life’s work of the founder of Free Southern Theater and Junebug Productions.
Small Change Adds Up
The dark tide we’re facing may break, though perhaps not before it’s managed to break things.
4 Ways Theatres Are Getting Out the Vote for the Midterms
If you’re gathering people for a common activity anyway, why not find ways to help them exercise one of their fundamental rights at citizens?
A Florida ‘Awakening’ in the Wake of Tragedy
The Stoneman Douglas school shooting and the #NeverAgain movement made a stark, stirring backdrop for a high school production of the coming-of-age musical.
Surprised That ‘Never Again’ Leaders Are Theatre Kids? I’m Not
Many of these Florida teen activists found their voice and their sense of community onstage.
