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By McClain Leong. Through creative captions, the access tool of captioning becomes a design element with its own dramaturgical perspective.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Yussef El-Guindi. Playwright Yussef El Guindi reflects on Golden Thread's pivotal second decade; writing in the post-9/11 landscape; and how Middle Eastern, …
By Kristin Marting. On 27 April 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with theatre and film director, video and sound artist, and performing arts curator Brian Rogers.
By Kristin Marting. On 20 April 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with multi-hypenates Purva Bedi and Mariana Newhard. Both are acclaimed writer performers who have worked in theat…
By Chantal Bilodeau. Chantal Bilodeau reflects on a decade of curating the Theatre in the Age of Climate Change series and the ways the work (and world) has shifted in that time.
By Amanda L. Andrei. Amanda L. Andrei crossed continents to see Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo's Chapter II: The Brotherhood in search of transformation.
By Kristin Marting. On 13 April 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the award-winning director and founder and artistic director of Elevator Repair Service, one of the most accl…
By Torange Yeghiazarian, Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson. This episode is a deep dive into the founding of Golden Thread Productions with founding artistic director Torange Yeghiazarian"tracing…
By Kate Brennan, Rachel Anderson-Rabern, David Lee White. Technological innovation is outpacing labor protections, and theatre is not immune to this phenomenon.
By Bayan Shbib. The Writing the Future workshop intended to create space where young Palestinian theatremakers' could articulate their own precarity through monologue and solo performance.
By Kristin Marting. On 6 April 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the incomparable performance artist and cabaret singer Joey Arias.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson. Marina and Nabra take a sweeping look at thirty years of Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian theatre in the United States"from Golden Thread's…
By . Join us for a conversation about creating theatre across borders, its challenges and possibilities, and imagine with us a global community that crosses oceans and continents to produce …
By Dorcy Rugamba . Dorcy Rugamba advocates for a theatre that enables us to embrace other histories and draw on the full breadth of human experience in order to adopt a universal perspectiv…
By Kristin Marting. On 30 March 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the awe-inspiring, award-winning composer and performer Heather Christian, who was most recently recognized w…
By Jan Cohen-Cruz. Contributors share final reflections on the attraction of prison theatre workshops.
By Kristin Marting. On 23 March 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with creators Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobelle.
By Artist Caregiver. This month's diarist has been navigating government healthcare for his mother and grandmother, which requires relentless advocacy and follow-through.
By Emily K. Harrison. Is there space for hope in climate crisis theatre? What happens when teachers are just as terrified as their students? These questions and others reverberate through Em…
By . In this panel discussion, we unpack how a more inclusive canon could radically change the future of the theatre, and the histories we present to the world.
By Jan Cohen-Cruz. This episode covers what happens to Jan after she is banned from the workshop and Finn when he is released.
By . This year, in celebration, join Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and Friends of Ashtar Theatre as we host an online presentation by Iman Aoun, co-founder and executive director of Ashtar Th…
By Mei Ann Teo, Jane Jung, Sara Zatz. The leadership team of Pink Fang reflects on the company's renaming and new directions at the end of a three-year transition period that began with the …
By . The performance of THIS USED TO BE GAY / below 14th Street will be followed by a case study on archiving the living interdisciplinary performing artist.
By . Part of NETWeek Chicago, this public conversation brings together Black women who direct, devise, and lead in Chicago, and is in partn
