105 stories by "Teresa Eyring"
TCG's vision statement and strategic realignment point us towards harnessing the power of partnerships, and so I am particularly pleased to share that I have joined the board of The Actors F…
A few years ago, my friend Gordon Davidson (founder of the Mark Taper Forum, former artistic director of Center Theatre Group and an original champion of the regional theatre movement) told …
Last week concluded TCG’s Cuba Exploratorium trip, which brought nearly 20 TCG Member Theatre staffers and artists to Cuba as pasrt of our World Theatre Day programming.  Arts of…
"And I love Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories, man. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet…You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and…
Last week, we returned from our Audience (R)Evolution Learning Convening in Philadelphia, and our minds and hearts are still revving from all the ideas, connections and (not one but two) ban…
Last week, TCG held our winter board meeting here in New York City. We were joined by the National Council for the American Theatre, our advisory council of theatre trustees. While the board…
From Beckett's beats to Pinter's pauses, from places to curtains, time in theatre is measured as much by the pulse of the heart as the tick of the second. Great theatre can make hours disapp…
"The way I view life is very connected to the way I grew up in Cuba. It's a certain quality"like a tender pity for things." - MarÃa Irene Fornés in an interview with Lucia Mauro, Perform…
"This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the …
Happy 2013! The 113th Congress is sworn in, not-for-profits are evaluating our swerve from the fiscal cliff and artists are going beyond the stage to advocate as citizens. Here at TCG, we're…
I write to you now from Poland, where I’ve been a guest of the Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival in Krakow. I’ve attended 12 shows and engaged in conversation with Pol…
But there’s always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Now I’ve found that what’s most valuable about that place is not the plac…
I wanted to call your attention to some important resources now posted on our website. If you missed the Fall Forum on Governance"or attended and would like to refresh your memory"we now hav…
This season of giving is also a season of change. The election gave us our first Hindu Representative in Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii); our first Asian-American Senator, Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii); …
Our hearts go out to all those struggling in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. What an apt phrase that is: Our hearts go out. Yesterday, we reached out to our Member Theatres and Affiliates in th…
“I can tell you, after having served for 30 years and having seen the worst conditions around the world, that this is a wonderful country, and it is because of our culture, our opennes…
Forging connections, creating an equitable future, building livable communities and providing effective leadership; these were the key themes of the 2012 Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) Confer…
Perhaps we'll look back on the first half of the twenty-first century and see a revolution of process, with deeper collaborations among theatre artists leading to an explosion of innovation.…
You say you got a real solution / Well, you know / We’d all love to see the plan. -"Revolution," The Beatles It's been over a year since Occupy Wall Street began, and nearly two since …
In our current political maelstrom, everyone seems to have their own set of facts, twisted and spun to support the confirmation biases of their opinions. This can sometimes be true of our ow…
We must love one another or die. W.H. Auden, “September 1, 1939″ (1940) We must love one another and die. W.H. Auden, “September 1, 1939″ (1955) What a difference a w…
I hope everyone had a happy Labor Day weekend, and took a moment amongst the barbecues and beach days to reflect on the ongoing importance of the labor movement. Watching Lily Ledbetter's sp…
One of the most urgent conversations to emerge from the 2012 National Conference in Boston concerned the perennial theme of diversity. However, we noticed that the frame of that conversation…
The weekend before last, I had the pleasure of participating in two memorable events in Kentucky. In Lexington, I was a keynote speaker at the conference of the American Alliance for Theatre…
"Very ordinary town, if you ask me." Mr. Webb, Our Town by Thornton Wilder On July 12, the NEA announced the 2012 Our Town grant recipients, and whether or not Wilder's eponymous paean to sm…
