Jun 15, 2017 – Stages of Resistance What I Needed Someone to Tell Me about Playwriting (in the age of 45)by Zakiyyah AlexanderSo, the world is going mad, how can I possibly be a playwright? How can I spend time writing theater when there are so many practical things I could do…
Jun 14, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Resisting The Evil of Small Thingsby Roberto Gutiérrez VareaA few weeks ago a group of volunteers from a church in Canada were turned back at the US border.
Jun 13, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Transforming Silence(s)by Mildred Inez LewisIs the world increasingly hostile and volatile? Deep chasms have been exposed all over the world. Some have been building underneath the radar for a lon...
Jun 12, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Lorca and Artistic Freedomby Anne García-RomeroIn these times, I look to Federico García Lorca for inspiration. In the face of fascism, he wrote powerful plays that challenged cultural, societal and ...
Jun 09, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Weatherby Lisa SchlesingerWe were just getting acquainted with slow food, slow living, and coming to accept that slow is actually good for our minds and our imaginations...
Jun 08, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Thought Into Action: Theater Can Save the Worldby Pia Wilsonby Pia Wilson
Jun 07, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner A Closer Look: Samuel D. Hunterby Mary HamiltonI’ve never written anything this long before. But the further I got into it, and the more three act plays I read on the subway to and from that writing ...
Jun 06, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Archives, Hindsight, and Change by Diana Damian MartinSomeone once said to me that resistance should feel like dancing on a muddy floor, somewhere in hell. At the time, all I could think of was a pastiche o...
Jun 05, 2017 – Stages of Resistance When Fake News Becomes Realityby Jake WitlenThe day Donald Trump won, I was sitting in a rehearsal room in Berlin in the midst of a three-month rehearsal for Thomas Ostermeier's interpretation of ...
Jun 02, 2017 – Stages of Resistance I Share These Storiesby Marissa ChibasA little over three years ago I read an article in the Sunday LA Times that grabbed my heart and shook my soul. The article focused on unaccompanied chi...
Jun 01, 2017For the SoulCollected by Alexandra GonzalesIt can be easy to get discouraged. Life is troubling and all too often in the most personal of ways...
Jun 01, 2017 – Stages of Resistance The Struggle With Hopeby Riti SachdevaI recently saw The Matrix Reloaded and repeated Morpheus’ line, “It’s not a matter of hope. It’s a matter of time.” I’m not sure this sentiment, in prac...
May 31, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Temporary Communities in the Era of Climate Changeby Jeremy PickardThere is the sort of community that establishes by individuals living, working, and playing together over many years. And there is another sort of commu...
May 31, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner The ChirpWrote a play? Check out these submission opportunities with upcoming deadlines!
May 30, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Make Scott Pruitt’s Trail of Three Thousand Emails Infamous or, Theater for an Embodied Politicby Heather WoodburyHere’s what I see: the 3,000 emails exchanged between Scott Pruitt and Oklahoma fossil fuel honchos as embodied speech; performed by the banks of a coal...
May 25, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Fairness.docby Octavio SolisBack in 1949, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) determined people weren’t being readily exposed to the great variety of viewpoints in the Unit...
May 24, 2017 – Stages of Resistance ‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ (The Postmodern Danger): Or, How to Make Art in a ‘Post-Truth’ Worldby Kevin BrownI like to describe “modernism” as a sort of umbrella term, under which the other “isms” (such as symbolism, futurism, expressionism, surrealism, and abs...
May 23, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Theater as Protest: Guidelines for Empowering Students on Your CampusBy Caroline Patricia Callahan, Reagan Elizabeth Casteel, Maria Connolly, Marta Konty, Eresh Themistocles Nausicaä, John-Paul J. Pelletier, Maddie Rose, Emily TworekIn Fall 2016 Playwright Catherine Filloux asked her Playwriting Workshop at the University of Rochester to create a Community Action Plan.
May 22, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Collective Obatalaby Eric Mayer-Garcia“Resistance” is a word I avoid in my scholarship on Latinx theater because it pulls our way of thinking into a binary of the mainstream vs. the marginal...
May 19, 2017 – Stages of Resistance The Words I Chooseby Raymi Ortuste QuirogaI left Bolivia in 1998. Last time I visited was in June 2007 before starting an Acting degree in London later that academic year. The memory that hits m...
May 18, 2017 – Stages of Resistance My Body as Resistanceby Guadalís Del CarmenI never thought I’d ever see Blackface front and center in my lifetime. And I don’t mean Blackface as a social commentary or a critique on the minstrel ...
May 17, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Staging Resistance the Deep Ecology Way – A Radical Departureby Paula CizmarWhy not think in unusual terms these days anyway? There has never been a better time to merge a life in art with a life as a political citizen.
May 16, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Politics and Satire, 2017by Oladipo AgboluajeThe best remit to a black writer working in the UK is that I could write anything I wanted, set it anywhere I chose so long as the piece interrogated th...
May 15, 2017 – Stages of Resistance The Second Sight of Stoneby Maddy CostaStones grey as the clouds amassing overhead, the lifeless grey of the dead. Stones buried for centuries beneath a slope of trees, now mottled and crumbl...
May 13, 2017 – Stages of Resistance The Product of Communityby Stephen SewellOur practice is one of coming together, relying and depending on one another in order to produce something which only has meaning when finally a group ...
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