Recent Essays

Tracing the family she's created artistically and socially, Virginia Grise writes about art-making as a process of survival, self-actualization, and community building.

The playwright James Still mueses on creativity, the role of the inner and outer creativity, and finding happiness in unlikely places in the journey of creating new work for his keynote adress at the Cohen New Works Festival at the University of Texas at Austin on March 28th, 2011.

Part one of Michael Rohd's look at "How does the work we do impact, intersect with and contribute to a healthy, functional democracy?"

David Dower, the Co- Artistic Director of ArtsEmerson, responds to P. Carl's article about finding one's creative voice in theater with charting how he, Dower, became the "creative" person he is, and how that lead him to dramatugy.

P. Carl narrates his evolution of finding his place in the creative field of theater, and the way the nature and expression of creativity in theatre is tied into the nature of philosophical argument.

Puppetry is the bastard nephew of so-called legitimate theater. Yet puppetry stubbornly persists, even flourishes, in our digital age as an intentionally Luddite approach to an emphatically live art.

Todd London celebrates the vast scope of Julie Taymor's body of work which draws on influences from all over the world.

Daniel Alexander Jones interviews Marissa Chibas, an actor and writer, on the need for aesthetic diversity on contemporary American stages.

Playwright Max "Bunny" Sparber attributes his playwrighting style to artists throughout history who use misbehaviors to captivate their audience.

Adam Szymkowicz interviews director Hal Brooks about his process and aspirations as a director.