Hold on Tightly, Let Go Lightly
Amelia Parenteau
December 7, 2020
In this essay, Amelia Parenteau explores what we can learn from career transitions between medicine and theatre.
In this essay, Amelia Parenteau explores what we can learn from career transitions between medicine and theatre.
Using voices from the past, artists from the Commissary in conjunction with the Vineyard Theatre find a way to energize their work in the present.
Read the latest news surrounding the world premiere cast recordings of “(I Am) Nobody’s Lunch” and “Paris Commune.”
As Philadelphia attempts to achieve inclusion and equity for black creatives, Dezi Tibbs interviews BIPOC Philly artists about visions for the future and the creation of The Black Theatre Alliance of Philadelphia.
Revisit Michael Friedman’s work and the artists who brought it to life.
In this update from The Civilians’ Associate Artist community, Quincy Tyler Bernstine talks about the creation of her “New York Daily News” op-ed and the future of “Three Sisters” at New York Theatre Workshop.
A time capsule revealed a “letter to the future” written by Barbara Ann Teer, founder of the National Black Theatre. How can her words inspire us today?
In their first live performance since the shutdown, two theater veterans read Frederick Douglass’s historic speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” on its 168th anniversary, baptizing Brooklyn’s Black Lives Matter mural.
Arts journalist and filmmaker Verity Healey speaks with members of the Belarus Free Theatre to discuss how making art in exile has prepared them for making theater during a pandemic.
Alex Ates speaks with Whit MacLaughlin—the experimental theatermaker who ventured into the online realm before it became our norm—about the intersection between digital technology and live performance and pedagogy.
On this Juneteenth, organizations to support and actions you can take to fight for racial justice in New York City.
At Wesleyan University, a Theater Department production of The Rude Mechs’ “The Method Gun” takes devised theater digital.
The Civilians presents the ninth annual R&D Group FINDINGS Series, running 5/29-6/29, and opens applications for the 2020-21 R&D Group.
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen discuss their documentary play “Coal Country” before and after its coronavirus cancellation.
Jan Cohen-Cruz invites theater makers working in community-based and socially engaged art in the United States to take part in research about commonalities across the field, the practices and principles adhered to, where people work and with whom, and more.
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