The playwright, Leslie Kaplan, was gracious enough not only to invite me to meet her in her home tucked up on a hill near the Pantheon, but to read my translation and share her feedback. That spring, I traveled to...
Join HowlRound and Company One for a roundtable conversation that will explore how Boston’s commitment to expanding public access to the arts has redefined what constitutes public art and its impact on placemaking efforts. This event will feature Boston-based arts...
Cast Physically Disabled Actors Disabled RolesWhile disabled characters have existed for centuries, they have rarely been played by disabled actors. Many famous non-disabled Hollywood actors have won Oscars playing disabled roles. Scholar and theatremaker Claudia Alick calls this practice “disability...
This doesn’t mean all the Native people who came to Constitution felt good. Some let us know how painful it was to sit in the audience of mostly non-Native people at this particular show. No matter what Adrienne and Oliver did to tweak the language, the play was not written by an Indigenous writer or for an explicitly Indigenous audience. Our...
Deen Rawlins-Harris: The first question I have is, how did we create the festival during the summer of 2023 and spring 2024? Let's start with the summer.Antionne Showels II: We started coming up with the festival last summer at the Vortex. We...
In support of the upcoming performance of renowned theatre artist Milo Rau's Antigone in the Amazon at the NYU Skirball Center (27-28 September), the Segal will be screening films of the two previous productions in Rau's myth meets modern-day activism...
One of the first people we connected with was Dr. David Jortner (full professor of theatre and graduate program director, Baylor University), who has been tracking the department closings for the past four to five years. In 2022, he presented...
Highlights from the Concept PaperFocus on Community and ConnectionAt every LTC convening I have attended, a question recurs: how does Latinidad unite us, and will it be enough to unite us in the future? We are comprised of such different...
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Berlin is probably the German-speaking city with the most performing artists and theatre festivals in Europe. Unlike their pompous siblings in Bayreuth (Richard Wagner Opera Festival) and in Salzburg (Salzburg Festival), Austria, where the rich European elites meet in the...
