Aesthetics

Jenna Gerdsen on a reinvention of wayang kulit—the ancient Southeast Asian puppet theatre form.

Actors Mary Frances Noser and Emma Lukens reflect on their process acting in Love Sonnets at Emerson College.

In this second installment, Helen Schultz reflects on her dramaturgical process.

In this first installment, Director Caitlin Bailey shares her directorial process for Love Sonnets: Things Women Say, a compilation of monologues for women written by Chuck Mee.

Minna Vallaste writes about a piece she created about dementia using ideas from Kantor’s Theatre of Death.

In this installment, Koy Suntichotinun discusses his process for creating a performance piece interpreting Aaron Weissman’s State Park, in which he incorporates social media.

Holly L. Derr deconstructs a new dynamic in her theatre department.

Brent Eickhoff discusses the challenges of programming large theatre productions with youth, advocating clear, realistic goals for teaching artists, students, and parents. 

Chantal Bilodeau on writing ourselves out of the pyramid and why she is breaking up with Aristotle.

Nelson Gray discusses the inspiration for his opera Here Oceans Roar and advocates more art centered on climate change.

Eco-theatre scholar and pioneer Una Chaudhuri considers how theatre is inventing new strategies for performance offered or necessitated by climate change.

Costume Designer M.L. Hart parallels the principles and concepts of costume and makeup design to body modification.

Playwright Will Arbery shares his experience working with BOOMERANG Dance Company and how movement informs his writing process.

Olivia Rubino-Finn on the Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, directed by Ivo van Hove. 

In this installment, Playwright and poet Sabina England shares her process for creating performances for deaf and hearing audiences.

In this first installment, C. Fischer starts their series, exploring the intersections of gender, drag performance, and acting.

Manuel Betancourt on The Royale by Marco Ramírez at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City.

Andrew Bailes interviews director Monty Cole about his all-male, all-black production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape in Chicago, Illinois.

Caridad Svich considers spectatorship and audience in anticipation of the 10th NoPassport “Dreaming the Americas” theatre and performance conference on Monday, March 14, 2016.

Marcina Zaccaria on Jody Christopherson’s Greencard Wedding at Dixon Place in New York City.

Translator Henning Bochert talks with playwright Andrea Stolowitz who was recently in residence in Berlin at the English Theatre Berlin.