Topia: How Does This City Make You Feel?
Kate Tarker
November 26, 2025
Next Forever artist Kate Tarker paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of Providence, RI, a location that informs her newest piece, TOPIA.
Next Forever artist Kate Tarker paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of Providence, RI, a location that informs her newest piece, TOPIA.
Khristián Méndez Aguirre discusses the theatrical “unnaturalism” at the heart of his new play about the 2024 forest fires in Guatemala and decolonizes traditional representations of nature in Western theater and media.
Step into the spacey desert world of Next Forever resident Kate Douglas’s play-in-progress IF I FORGET THEE, O EARTH through an artist created mood board.
ANTIGONE IN THE AMAZON had its U.S. premiere at NYC’s Skirball Center in September 2024. The questions Milo Rau raises with his company of actors and performers are not easy, but they are poignant.
What role does theater play in the fight to corral climate change and avert catastrophe? Not the one we think, suggests eco-dramatist and scholar, Khristián Méndez Aguirre in this essay–the first of a series on eco-dramaturgy.
Next Forever resident Kate Douglas talks to Extended Play editor Faith Zamblé about time, space, grief and how plays make space for wonder and loss.
Next Forever resident AriDy Nox weaves a methodology of Black feminism and curiosity as groundwork for their play, “Why Ya’ll Hate Earth So Bad?”
R&D group member Dan Caffrey shares the inspiration and process behind his new play THE TUSK HUNTERS.
In this article from NYC-based theater creator John J King, originally published by HowlRound, King discusses creating sustainable theater and pursuing best practices for both theater and the environment.
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.
Extended Play’s Daniel Krane interviews Alix Lambert and Brian Young about the making of the music video for a classic Michael Friedman song and what Michael Friedman’s work means to them.
Activist/writer Andrea Ciannavei interviews Jacques Servin and Laura Nix about the Yes Men, the activist performance duo that targets power systems.
“The thing I ask the artist is: What’s urgent to you? And then also: What can you do with groups that you might not be able to do by yourself? There is a politic there. Some people address it head on in a very overt way, and others are more nuanced.”
In May of 2015, Jennie Hahn of Maine’s Open Waters performance collaborative launched a multi-year investigation into the Penobscot River. She invited writer Cory Tamler to help launch the project, which will inform a performance event in 2017.
“I grew up in New York, I love gray. But then I moved to California and fell in love with blue.”
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