Through music, immersion and metathearics, “Our New Town” calls us all to wake up and take ownership of our personal relationship to guns and gun violence.
Janis and Richard Londraville are a husband-and-wife team of literary scholars. Together, they have published numerous biographies, including the 2006 book, The Most Beautiful Man
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.
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.”
Stacey Rose discusses her relationship to Trap music and how it inspired “TRAPT,” a new play she is developing in the Civilians R&D Group.
Come see AMERICAN CRYPTIDS, an investigative musical theater performance. This Monday, February 25th, 7pm at Joe’s Pub.
R&D Program Director Megan McClain discusses the projects presented as part of the 2018 R&D FINDINGS Series and invites people to apply for the 2018-19 R&D Group.
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.
Eva von Schweinitz, the lead artist of “The Space between the Letters,” discusses how her deep dive into adult literacy inspired her most recent work. Incorporating interviews and devising techniques, this project is being developed in the Civilians R&D Group.
Writer, composer and lyricist Deepali Gupta discusses some research topics for “I Love You Stranger,” a new musical which takes a personal look at bipolar disorder. Navigating a balance of research and memoir, this work is being developed in the Civilians R&D Group.
“This is my…our…this is our city. It’s not just about, ‘It used to be ours and now it’s theirs.’ It’s everyone’s.” — Alex Magana
We’re so stuck on “This has worked here for so long,” that sometimes we’re scared to take the risk to change it. And I think that’s when you need the younger generation and you need the new populace to start telling you, “This is what we like, and this is what it needs to be.” — Juan Zabala
“I can only speak to European countries I’ve been in where they don’t make the same demands on the storytelling of their theater, of their plays that we do in the U.S., and I’ve found this to be the case with a lot of my work that is more traditional. People feel safer in it.” — Sheila Callaghan
“As a skateboarder, you look at things differently. Like architecture. And the way things are built. The way you can move your board on something.” – JD Turner
“Oh, they could work them ’till they dropped. And so he told me that he worked and, he worked doing the Skyline drive there on that wall and he worked digging sewer systems. They did that work by hand back then.” — Frank McCracken
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