Event descriptionLeadership at theatres and arts organizations across the country are changing, with many of them moving to shared leadership models. However what that means in practice varies widely. Why are we seeing this shift, is it all that different...
Nabra Nelson: 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,...
Innovate Heritage is an international and transdisciplinary research platform. Through events, online media, publications and partnerships, Innovate Heritage facilitates discourse and knowledge exchange between arts and heritage, uniting artists, scholars, and heritage and arts professionals.Wednesday 23 OctoberOpening SessionWelcoming Address: The...
The 21st annual PRELUDE Festival, curated by Jess Barbagallo and John Hoobyar in alignment with “Not a Luxury,” a collaboration between ASAP-15 and the Park Avenue Armory, will feature works-in-process, critical conversations, and new theater and performance scholarship.As a featured...
Observations on Acting with StereotypesIn my classroom, I found that my students played with less commitment when stereotypes of a character's age, gender, intelligence, ability, social caste, race, or sexual orientation were involved, particularly when the students did not have...
While the persistence and curiosity of a researcher is necessary for this step, serendipity also plays a part in this process. Translator and novelist Anton Hur once told me that there is a book out there waiting for you to...
Translators Are Part of the TeamLate last year, a literary theatre agency I have worked with a number of times wrote me that a theatre in Austria is interested in producing a play by one of “my” London playwrights they...
This Symposium is a part of Cara Mia Theatre's 5th Annual LATINIDADES Theatre Festival. Designed to support arts organizations and independent artists, the Symposium will explore how our arts can thrive during turbulent times, with emphasis on local community engagement...
This season’s Broadway hits have included plays translated from Russian (Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya) and Norwegian (Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People). This might suggest that plays in translation can thrive in US theatre, but that is only true...
Jean: Do you take roughly the same approach you've just described for each novel you’ve adapted for the stage?Caridad: Yes. House of Lagoon by Rosario Ferré was the most recent. I read it. Then, I responded in my own language....
