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Dusk of a Great Day at Theater Mu
A new report, part of the Wallace Foundation’s Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative, spotlights promising solutions to long-standing artistic challenges at a Minnesota theatre company.
Can We Talk About Success? The Pregones/PRTT Story
NYC’s Puerto Rican theatre, a new Wallace Foundation report shows, faces structural challenges—and has much to offer the field.
So Let the Fireworks Come
Counter-programming the semiquincentennial with an older and deeper story that can't be untold.
An Excerpt From ‘Antíkoni’
This adaptation of Sophocles’s 'Antigone' centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family tearing itself apart over the fate of ancestral remains.
An Excerpt From ‘Yuchewahkénh (Bitter)’
Vickie Ramirez's play explores the erasure of Indigenous women, and what it takes to claim your voice and your culture.
That Banyan Tree
This creative work from Lee Cataluna explores what Maui means to the world in the wake of the Lahaina fires.
José Rivera: Mystery, Awe, and the Long Apprenticeship
This month Brian talks to the prolific playwright and screenwriter about religion, working-class heroes, and how he learned he's not an actor from Tom Hanks.
Adventures With the Audience at CATF
A report from Shepherdstown, where it's all new all the time. Plus: thoughts on the Oskar Eustis bombshell and what it says about our role in the movement.
Leadership Changes at The Public, Juilliard, Childsplay, and More
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.