Topic: Theater
The Collaborator
Nia Benjamin makes experimental theater that’s not just experimenting on stage — it’s also experimenting with the process itself, allowing for collaboration and room to breathe
By Logan Cryer
The (Vote) Play’s The (Vote) Thing
PA Youth Vote and activist theater company Just Act are using drama to activate the newest generation of voters. What can we learn from them on Voter Registration Day?
By Sarah Jordan
The Teaching Artist
The next in a series with Forman Arts Initiative, actor, writer and educator Camille Young uses her voice to celebrate others — especially Black femme artists — and her classroom to help young people celebrate themselves.
By Morgan Nitz
War Words
This Veterans Day, Philly’s InterAct Theatre is among seven U.S. venues to stage a play culled from real vets’ stories about life in, and after, service to our country
By Jessica Blatt Press
Pearl Bailey | Philadelphia Women’s History Month All-Star
All-Star #10: Pearl Bailey
The Politics of Witch Hunting
A local theater director on how Trump’s post-election Republican enablers have thrust us into a real-life version of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
By David Bradley
“Actors Have to Work On Their Craft”
The Covid-19 recession has hit theater—and those who work in it—hard. A virtual networking support group is helping them stay connected
By Jane M. Von Bergen
A Map of Myself
The one-woman show from 20-year-old Sara Abou Rashed charts her alternately heartbreaking and heartwarming immigrant journey
By Jessica Blatt Press
My General Tubman
With her first play, acclaimed Philly author Lorene Cary delves deeply into what Harriet Tubman’s extraordinary life says about our own
By Jessica Blatt Press
Tangles in Time
A partnership between Jefferson and Theatre of Witness produced a play that turns art into medicine
By Jessica Blatt Press