How to be a Civilian
Faith Zamblé
June 6, 2024
A series of recipes and instructions modeled (lightly) after Yoko Ono’s “Grapefruit.”
A series of recipes and instructions modeled (lightly) after Yoko Ono’s “Grapefruit.”
R&D Group Members Brandy Hoang Collier, Clare Fuyuko Bierman, and Erika Ji answer questions about theater, storytelling, and the creative process behind their new musical, YOKO’S HUSBAND’S KILLER’S JAPANESE WIFE, GLORIA, which will be presented in the FINDINGS Series on June 16th.
R&D Group member Julia Izumi outlines the timeline of the Great Chicago Fire ahead of her new play, A RE-ENACTMENT OF THE IMAGINED TRIAL OF DAISY THE COW ?, WHO ALLEGEDLY CAUSED THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE, presented in the Findings Series on June 14th.
R&D Group member Andrew Saito discusses the inspiration for BLACKANESE, presented in the FINDINGS Series on June 8th.
R&D Group Member Xandra Nur Clark delves into the creation of their play URSA MAJOR, which will be presented in The Civilians’ Findings Series this June.
R&D Group members Adam Chanler-Berat and Julian Hornik provide a glimpse at their new musical, ASSISTED, which will be presented in The Civilians’ Findings Series this June.
Read what our Editorial Associate Leah Putnam and others have to say about The Civilians’ new musical Whisper House, running at 59E59 through February 6.
Carlyle Brown and Todd London discuss Brown’s play Down in Mississippi about the civil rights movement in 1964 as people across the United States continue fighting for voting rights.
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 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.
As we look forward to The Civilians’ upcoming presentation of Alix Lambert’s Courtroom, we take a look at a past interview with Lambert on her work “Crime: The Animated Series.” An evolution of this work, Lambert’s CRIME:IRL is in development to be staged later this year at The Model in Sligo, Ireland by Patrick Karl Curley.
The Civilians presents a workshop of Ethan Lipton’s new musical Talent Show which dives into the issue of charter schools and the American education system with humor.
Composer Kamala Sankaram talks about how she tells the story of the Mother Tree to the humans and trees of Prospect Park in her experimental opera The Last Stand.
Steve Cosson shares an inside look at the Broadway success’s roots at The Civilians, his experiences interviewing Dana Higginbotham, and what Dana H. accomplishes. Playing now through January at the Lyceum Theatre.
Siting Yang presents her latest work, HoD, a docufiction play that investigates neo-colonialism with a modern Chinese perspective and loosely adapts Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
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