Matter Over Mind: How Actors Learn to Embody Ideas (and Animate Bodies)
All stage performers must strike a balance between ‘head’ work and physical theatre, but the main trick may be not to see them as separate.
All Stories About approaches to theatre training
An Actor Prepares: 6 Performers Detail Their Processes
Carrie Coon, Crystal Dickinson, Maria Dizzia, Daniel Duque-Estrada, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Jon Norman Schneider talk training, acting process, and the mind/body connection.
A Playwright’s Journey Through a Year of Physical Theatre Training at Dell’Arte
The writer shares her experience of spending 10 months in Blue Lake, Calif., at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.
Running Away To Join Circus Theatre
How circus arts companies are training artists to become both actors and acrobats.
A Roundup of Physical Theatre Training Programs in the U.S.
Theatre companies and training programs are incorporating physical acting training to strengthen ensembles and improve performance.
15 After 20, Part 2: Actors Move Onto New Stages, Some of Them Theatrical
In the final installment of this follow-up with the Harvard acting class of 1995, former colleagues find meaning on and off the stage, together and apart.
15 After 20, Part 1: Actors Who Trained Together in the Mid-’90s, and Where They Are Now
As young actors at Harvard, they formed a kind of de facto theatre company. Then they hit the pavement in New York. Here’s the story of their last 20 years.
To Do or To Teach? Is That Even a Question?
For the nation’s theatre teaching artists, “arts education” is a redundant phrase. Their own lives and careers prove it.
14 Theatrical Plans to Change the World
Meet a cadre of artists and companies who put social, political and civic causes at the forefront of their work.
Change By Degrees
Can theatre for social change be taught? Here’s a roundup of theatre-studies programs where arts activism is on the syllabus.
