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.”
Steve Cosson and Cynthia Hopkins discuss their different theatrical journeys through the Arctic to address the global climate change crisis.
Environmental literary critic Anthony Lioi unpacks the work of environmentalist media and artists who grapple with global climate change.
The third episode in our “Sex Variants” series further explores the work of sex researcher Dr. George W. Henry. Here, Trey Lyford, David Cale, Cyrilla Baer and Dito Van Riegersberg perform songs and monologues based on the doctor’s research.
Actors perform a piece about New York City’s High Line public park, written for the Civilians’ Annual Spring Benefit in 2012.
A live recording of the tenth anniversary concert staging of “Canard, Canard, Goose,” the first show the Civilians ever produced.
In this episode, actors embody the words of those involved with the Atlantic Yards development project, including politicians Marty Markowitz and Letitia James.
In the first episode of “Let Me Ascertain You,” Civilians artists perform material for the company’s play “In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards.”
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