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By Yura Sapi, Sona Tatoyan. Hakawati founder Sona Tatoyan tells the story of her great-great-grandfather, growing up during the Armenian genocide, spending summers in Aleppo, and how art is …
By Carlos Morton. For almost forty years, Real Women Have Curves has pulled audiences in with its story of Latine women in a sewing factory taking charge of their own destinies.
By . Jelinek's radical play THE SECOND COMING against autocracy and fascism will premiere at the Down to Earth Festival in New York, introduced by a fiery speech by the political artist and …
By Dani Lamorte. How can a life be organized? What authority should an archive hold?
By Yura Sapi, Aganza Kisaka. Aganza Kisaka, Founder of Yenze Theatre Conservatoire, discusses being an entrepreneur, a teacher, and an artist in Uganda. She reflects on consistency as key an…
By Laura Grothaus. "If your body is a portal, where does it lead?" This question led the creation of Paradise Portals, an immersive performance and dance party featuring Baltimore-area trans…
By Carla Della Gatta. To understand the impact of the 2025 Fornés Institute Symposium, one must look to both the events on the schedule and the space in-between and on the side"the conversa…
By Emily Chackerian. Is New York theatre backsliding into a less equitable industry?
By Seth Wilson. When Stage Left Theatre went looking for a space to produce The Distrikt of Lake Michigun, they turned to Chicago's history of storefront theatre.
By L. Nicol Cabe. Online theatre spaces can promote accessibility, democratic processes, international connections, and ecological benefits, but many digital platforms act as intermediaries …
By Citlali Pizarro. Parrots at the Pagoda imagines an afterworld where parrots guide Puerto Rican drag performer Johnny Rodriguez through memories of his life.
By Bryan Stanton. Through culturally responsive pedagogy, Byan Stanton opened up their design classrooms to center student voices and value knowledge from many distinct cultures.
By Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Robert Duffley, Miranda Rose Hall, Geoff Kanick, Maya Roth. To Tell a Story About the Earth is part scripted play, part guided introduction to devising.
By Lianna Matt McLernon, Ankita Raturi. Fifty Boxes of Earth at Theater Mu was a maximalist play that combined Western and South Asian theatrical styles, choreography, and puppetry.
By Jonathan Mandell. Teatru Malta's 1881 infused immersive theatre with game design, all in a dark, castle-like setting.
By . The annual ATHE conference brings together a global community of educators, artists, and administrators over a week of intense days of workshops, panel presentations, plenary sessions, …
By . This digital showcase lands as a direct response to the recent political transformations in Syria and includes two live artist discussions that will be held to deepen the engagement wit…
By Amanda L. Andrei. "Add Theater to Taste" was the recent theme of the annual Iloilo Theater Festival in the Philippines. Heritage language learner Amanda L.
By Anna Dolores Novak. In March 2025, the Latinx Theatre Commons convened a daylong symposium to honor and explore the work of MarÃa Irene Fornés.
By Benjamin Gillespie. In March 2025, the Latinx Theatre Commons convened a daylong symposium to honor and explore the work of MarÃa Irene Fornés.
By Nicole Hughes. The potential for photosensitive reactions"like seizures or migraines"keeps some audiences out of theatres.
By VIKTOR VILISOV. In Russia, "LGBT propaganda" has been banned, forcing artists who want to create work that engages with queerness to do so in secret.
By Jennifer Skura Boutell, Luke Landric Leonard. Monk Parrots recently produced Gates Leonard's Pearls for Spurs, a new play about a dysfunctional family. The play was inspired by Gates's ow…
By Taylor Hunsberger. Although theatres depend on front-of-house workers for a smooth audience experience, these employees are often isolated from the rest of the theatre's staff and subject…
By Iphigenia Taxopoulou. When government agencies establish well-structured frameworks for environmental action, they enable the arts and culture sector to function as a central, active cont…
