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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.

Responsible Stewardship: Grappling With an Artist’s Legacy

Composer Michael Friedman’s sister Marion Friedman Young, and the executor of his estate, reflects on her role in preserving her brother’s work in an evolving field. Reposted from American Theatre with permission from Theatre Communications Group.

Working from a Place of Courage

Ten years after “The Great Immensity,” received a National Science Foundation grant that drew the ire of Congressional Republicans, The Civilians’ Artistic Director Steve Cosson discusses the complicated relationship between the government and arts organizations.

The Lobby Project: OH, THIS IS SUCCESS!

In this episode of Let Me Ascertain You, the Civilians’ podcast, we hear a recording of OH, THIS IS SUCCESS!, the Lobby Project for the Encores! Off-Center production of Road Show.

The Lobby Project: Notes Not Written, Then/Now

In this episode of Let Me Ascertain You, the Civilians’ podcast, we hear a recording of Notes Not Written, Then/Now, the Lobby Project for the Encores! Off-Center production of Promenade.

The Lobby Project: Working on WORKING

In this episode of Let Me Ascertain You, the Civilians’ podcast, we hear a recording of Working on WORKING, the Lobby Project for the Encores! Off-Center production of Working.

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Civilians R&D in Process: Deborah Yarchun

Deborah Yarchun discusses “Drive,” a new play exploring the lives of truck drivers who must compete with self-driving vehicles. “Drive” is being developed in the 2018-19 R&D Group.

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Civilians R&D in Process: Rebecca Hart & David Kornfeld

R&D Program Director Megan McClain interviews Associate Artist Rebecca Hart about her project with composer David Kornfeld being developed in the Civilians R&D Group. Based partly on their own neurodiverse lives, the work asks questions about creativity, sanity, and what we consider “normal.”

Civilians R&D In Process: Untitled CREDIT Project

Molly Beach Murphy, Jeanna Phillips, and Annie Tippe share the inspiration behind “Untitled CREDIT Project,” a new music-theater fantasia that examines America’s volatile relationship to money and our addictive love affair with live television.

The 1.20.17 Project

We invite you to become a citizen journalist—for just ten minutes—and help offer a platform to diverse communities around the world at precisely the moment that Donald Trump is inaugurated President.

Looking Back on Our First Year at Extended Play

We are celebrating one year of bringing you some of the most exciting stories about investigative theater artists from around the world! Here, we speak to some of the artists we’ve covered since Extended Play launched last year.