Category Archives: Ideas, Practices, Bright Spots

Why Every Working Mother (Parent) Needs a Stage Manager by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder

Posted on May 16, 2012 by ewilder
Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writers’ Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in part two of this three part series (find part one here) as she tries to balance rewrites and rehearsals with the challenges of being a working mom on
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Sometimes Mount Vesuvius Erupts: An Interview with Chuck Mee by Sarah Johnson

Posted on May 4, 2012 by sjohnson
When Charles Mee writes plays, he draws heavily from existing literature, critical theory and other plays, particularly those of Ancient Greece. This interview was conducted related to the University of Iowa Theatre Department’s staging of his critically acclaimed play, Big Love. This telephone interview originally took place on February 29,
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Making Way for Queer Experiments: An Interview with Kolmel WithLove by Jess Young

Posted on April 24, 2012 by jyoung
Whether it’s a black box theater or the form-fillable fields of a grant application, queer performance doesn’t always fit neatly into a box. When performing artist and curator Kolmel WithLove, a veteran artist in SOMArts Cultural Center’s time-based performance marathon 100 Performances for The Hole, approached us with a request
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The Commons and Common Ground at Emerson by Melia Bensussen

Posted on April 18, 2012 by mbensussen
I’ve joked for years that a nail in the coffin of a professional directing career is to teach. As more of us join the rank of the “teaching-professionals,” or “working-professionals who teach” or the “professional faculty” and all other such titles, the more irrelevant and untrue this comment becomes. With
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Translations: Engaging Engagement by Michael Rohd

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Michael Rohd
This column, published every 4-6 weeks, examines issues of translation as they relate to the field of theater and its intersections with other public and civic sectors. What does the word “engagement” mean these days? Dictionary definitions Appointment.  Employment. Battle. Synonyms include rendezvous, arrangement and tryst. Definition via personal narrative When
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