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Fire Season: Making Site-Specific Theatre About Climate Change that Could Be Threatened by Climate Change

The climate crisis is an ever-present reality and this article from Alice Stanley Jr. is still relevant seven months after its original publication on HowlRound. After a week of news agencies covering the climate crisis from the Amazon's waning ability to be the world's carbon sink to the wildfires ravaging the western United States with smoke reaching New York City, this production by Capital W feels as timely as ever for theater as a whole to consider.

PearlDamour Explores What it Means to Be American, One Town Named Milton at a Time

Performance art duo PearlDamour investigates the corners of America in their latest community engagement experiment and site-specific performance "Milton."

Transforming Documentary Film into Live Spectacle: Sam Green on Exploring the Fleeting Nature of Being Alive

“I don’t want to make a piece that bums people out. You can start to sound precious saying stuff like this, but in my mind, human connection and empathy are some of the highest aims of art."

Performance of ‘What You Are Now’ Streaming Now Free For A Limited Time

The Civilians & Ensemble Studio Theatre's production of Sam Chanse's WHAT YOU ARE NOW is now streaming for free until September 25th, 2022 on EST's website.

VOX: Recreating The Simpsons in the post-apocalypse

Anne Washburn, the playwright behind Mr. Burns, explains herself: “It’s about the comfort of looking again.”

Curated, Edition 1

In this first edition of our new Curated series, we are highlighting some top picks from The Civilians' staff for readers and audiences looking to learn more about the world.

Truth, Reality, and Absent Bodies: An Interview Between Carol Martin and Rabih Mroué

Advisory Board Member Carol Martin talks with theater artist Rabih Mroué about his decades of work, the status of truth, and making theater without actors in this Segal Center talk from 2020.

The Future Realized: Reflecting on Whisper House’s Long Journey

The Civilians looks back on the long journey to the stage for its latest production Whisper House by Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow. On stage now through February 6.