two figures in green, one on stilts, fight in a field

Ace Thomas and Gregg Erickson in The Extinction Event, play number one of Dream on the Farm, conceived and directed by Tannis Kowalchuk, produced by Farm Arts Collective on Willow Wisp Organic Farm. Featured in "Agri-Culture in Climate Change" by Tannis Kowalchuk.

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The < 3 G E N Project Explores Matrilineal Connectivity Through a Digital Theatre Lens

Amelia

Parenteau

Essay

The < 3 G E N Project Explores Matrilineal Connectivity Through a Digital Theatre Lens

1 May 2024

Amelia Parenteau explores the creation of The < 3 G E N Project: a documentary theatre project in which the creators, Beatriz Cabur and Giulia Cavallini, are using digital theatre to bridge the digital divide between generations of women, and invite these women into conversation on how to better connect.

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On Reinventing the Canon

Podcast

On Reinventing the Canon

30 April 2024

As conversations about the diversity and decolonization of syllabi continue, many theatre programs reconsider the texts they teach. In this episode, host Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder talks with Nathan Alan Davis from Boston University and Yizhou Huang from St. Louis University about reinventing the canon. They question who controls the narrative, discuss what qualifies as canon, and offer up some suggestions for course redesign.

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Challenging the COVID Status Quo

Essay

Challenging the COVID Status Quo

29 April 2024

Ezra Tozian, Claudia Alick, and Jon Jon Johnson discuss the need to challenge the status quo of ignoring COVID within the theatre industry and the impact that the lack of care is having on them and other disabled theatremakers.

Upcoming Livestreams

Honoring Nehad Selaiha

Segal

Center

Video

Honoring Nehad Selaiha

An evening celebrating the work of Egyptian theatre scholar Nehad Selaiha

Thursday 2 May 2024

Join us for an evening celebrating the Segal Center publication of five volumes of one of the most important voices in theatre criticism in the Arab world: the distinguished scholar and prominent critic of Egyptian theatre, Nehad Selaiha (1945-2017).