Susan Glaspell, Eugene O’Neill, and the American Theater That Might Have Been
The two writers, once artistic peers, traveled radically different paths. A consideration of The Verge and The Hairy Ape, now running in the same season for the first time in over a century.
Verbatim Theater Is Playing It By Ear
For Kramer/Fauci and The Ford/Hill Project, a tiny piece of technology known as the in-ear monitor is pushing actors—and text—closer to the truth.
Joey Arias and Basil Twist Do the Time Warp
Arias With a Twist is back in the theater where it debuted in 2008. Raven Snook speaks with the creators about bringing their puppet-and-song extravaganza out of storage and back to HERE Arts Center.
Voir Dire: On the Civic Position of Queer Artists
What do we owe a democracy that often isn’t sure about us? Moving between a jury summons and a reading of The Normal Heart, playwright Else Went reflects on certainty, compromise, and belonging.
What Theater Can Learn from Game Design
From immersive performances to chocolate-pudding city planning, game design is reshaping how audiences participate in theater. How far can it go?
How Playwrights Spend Their Time
Four writers tracked a week of writing, teaching, procrastinating, and trying to make art fit inside ordinary days.
Love, Art, and the O-1 Visa
Playwright Carolina Đỗ on the tight-knit community and bureaucratic absurdities that shaped ExtraO1dinary Aliens!, her new romantic comedy about immigration.