ARTS & THEATER

Many of Migdalia’s plays, from the very early Miriam’s Flowers to Fishtank and Two Roberts in this volume, live in limbo lands, the “where do I go now” purgatory of life just after death. She is our bard of the...

Obviously, then, as a dramatization of my life, Strange/Familiar isn’t a straightforward autobiography. Instead, the play blurs personal history with artful invention, even as the medium of theatre blurs the objective reality of live performance with the subjective impact of...

The Segal Center is pleased to announce an upcoming conference exploring the work of renowned U.S. theatre director and visual artist, Robert Wilson, and its influence on contemporary visual and performing arts as well as future artistic production. In celebration...

Nabra: That’s so fascinating and really also confirms what we’ve been saying in this season a lot, which is that MENA and SWANA cultures have had theatre for really since the dawn of time, since the dawn of civilization. There...

The We Hear You creative team put a lot of thought into the structure of our gatherings. In addition to the stories themselves, we wanted to weave generative connections. We thought of fungal networks running deep below the forest floor:...

Build the Reason for the TripA good journey requires a good amount of planning, and each theatre organization I work with requires a different journey. A search for an artistic director at Baltimore Center Stage should not be the same...

Ring of Keys is thrilled to host writers Kit Yan and Melissa Li for a look into their collaborative writing process for musical theatre. The session will give participants a chance to watch Kit and Melissa collaborate on new material,...

There is a well-trotted story that Herman Melville, as he was writing Moby Dick from his study in the Berkshires, saw in the snow-covered humps of Mount Greylock the eponymous white whale. This story of imaginative transformation may be apocryphal,...

Marina Johnson: Salam Alaikum. Welcome to Kunafa and Shay, a podcast produced for HowlRound Theatre Commons, a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide. Kunafa and Shay discusses and analyzes contemporary and historical Middle Eastern and North African, or MENA,...

In playwriting circles, there is a trend to announce on social media that “I got rejected by XYZ for the umpteenth time and I’ve decided I will never apply again!” It’s usually accompanied by a flurry of commentary either applauding...