This piece was written in honor of Daniel Dennett, a principled thinker, teacher, writer, philosopher and friend of the Civilians who passed away in April 2024.
Composer Michael Friedman’s sister Marion Friedman Young, and the executor of his estate, reflects on her role in preserving her brother’s work in an evolving field. Reposted from American Theatre with permission from Theatre Communications Group.
An appraisal of Derek McCormack’s latest work as a closet drama and literary object.
In this essay, Amelia Parenteau explores what we can learn from career transitions between medicine and theatre.
In the early aughts, The Civilians’ dared to create a show that grappled with conflicting realities coming from the Bush administration and the media-at-large.
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen discuss their documentary play “Coal Country” before and after its coronavirus cancellation.
Theatre folks mourn closed shows and unseen work due to the coronavirus pandemic, and worry over the impact on emerging artists. This piece first ran in American Theatre on March 22.
Extended Play’s Daniel Krane interviews Mark Russell, Director of the Under the Radar Festival, and “Andares” director Héctor Flores Komatsu.
It’s always fascinating to be a small piece of an enormous work, such as This is Reading. For months, you hear bits and bobs about the grand scheme but focus only on your tiny piece. This past weekend, we saw it all come together at Franklin Street Station.
London’s National Theatre and the National Film Board of Canada helped facilitate Jordan Tannahill’s virtual reality story “Draw Me Close,” which debuted at Tribeca Film Festival’s Storyscapes.
Fusebox returns for another year of some of the best contemporary, multi-disciplinary, digital performing and visual arts in the world.
“My goal is to have some sort of spiritual connection…with the music as a vehicle.” — Jen Kwok
“All of the work really is kind of a mirror,” says Morris. “If you do it right, there is enough space for the audience to find themselves in it, and to be able to read whatever they need or want to read into the work. And so it can truly speak to them in a really personal way.”
Extended Play talks to three artists who use theater to empower imprisoned women around the world.
We are celebrating one year of bringing you some of the most exciting stories about investigative theater artists from around the world! Here, we speak to some of the artists we’ve covered since Extended Play launched last year.
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