On Juliet: “That’s a ride or die girl — they don’t make them like that anymore.” (Urban Dictionary cites, “ride or die chick” as a girl willing to “do anything her man needs her to do.”)
Carlo D’Amore, Creative Director of the Drama Desk-nominated Live in Theater, discusses the very personal inspiration for his company’s new interactive and immersive show, “The Trial of Typhoid Mary.”
With “Pike St.,” her first solo show since 2006’s “No Child…,” Nilaja Sun explores her native Lower East Side through the lens of a family weathering a brutal hurricane.
Jack Cummings III, Artistic Director of the Transport Group, reflects on the process of developing his company’s show “Three Days to See” from the writings of Helen Keller. It played at New York Theater Workshop during the summer of 2015.
Micharne Cloughley reflects on the Civilians’ season as the first-ever theater company-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for which she wrote the play “The Way They Live.”
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.
“We never felt like ‘professional’ professional artists.” German theater collective Turbo Pascal aggressively creates free and public art in a country where the state-run theater monopolizes professional opportunities.
In his nearly 50-year career, investigative theater pioneer Ping Chong has explored some of the more controversial topics of our time and inspired others to emulate his methodology.
Environmental literary critic Anthony Lioi unpacks the work of environmentalist media and artists who grapple with global climate change.
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