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Why Are There So Few Women Leading Theatres and What Can Be Done About It?

Researchers Sumru Erkut and Ineke Ceder discuss their study and offer suggestions for including more women and people of color in leadership positions in US regional theatres.

10 Things All Theatre Directors Know To Be True

When we say, “okay, let’s run that scene one more time”, we really mean “let’s maybe run this one more time, probably more like two or three”.

Behind the Scenes, Theatre Students Learn the Ropes

Theatre arts students gain valuable experience behind the scenes through paid internships on faculty-supervised productions. That can lead to professional internships – and then jobs.

How to Make Your Theatre Budget Work for You

Ah, money. It’s the last thing we want to think about in terms of our programs, but it is a necessary consideration. Whether you are fully funded by your district or on your own, running a program requires careful thought and management to be successful.

Theatre Is Good at World-Building, How About World-Saving?

Working for a more sustainable, integral life onstage and off may be its own reward.

Theatre or Theater? In stage circles, that’s a fighting word

How companies spell that one volatile word says much about their histories and theatrical sensibilities

18 Funny Theater Major Tweets For People Who Know It Should Be Spelled "Theatre"

It's OK, I can make fun of them because I was one.

13 Things All Theatre Kids Can Relate To

From tech crew to leads, from directors to choreographers, if you’re involved in theatre you will immediately know what I’m talking about. We’ve been teased for our “over-dramatic ways” and our “cult-like behavior” and all the other nonsense non-thespians make up about us, we all know they’re just j

How ‘Slave Play’ Got 800 Black People to the Theatre

It’s not just about filling seats but about increasing access and generating an authentic conversation.

If a Theatre Company Does It, Is It Theatre?

Beyond Zoom readings, companies are finding new forms and collaborators, and reaching audiences far beyond any they could serve in person.

This Is What We Do Now

Theatre is the practice of putting dreams into action, so why don’t we use this time to dream, not about some uncertain future, but about what we can start doing now?

Why this is the worst time for touring theatre in generations

Touring theatre is in an even worse state than the rest of the industry. It’s up to stars and audiences to save it

How to be a guerrilla theatre activist

“Guerrilla theatre is a form of intervention where acts of spontaneous, surprise performance in unlikely public spaces rupture the boring-as-shit, day-to-day reality for an unsuspecting audie…

How to make your theatre production trans inclusive

Whether in a big production or on the small stage, every actor, director, and company should know how to make their show and its processes trans inclusive.

Great outdoors: how performance broke out of the theatre come rain or shine

In getting to parts that other arts don’t reach, outdoor shows attract audiences that genuinely represent the wider population, as a new study finds

Big audio dynamite: how theatre is moving at the speed of sound

Long treated as a final flourish, sound design is now sitting at the heart of theatre productions – and new technology means it can make drama more tense and terrifying than ever before

How Well Do You Know Mosaic Youth Theatre?

Mosaic Youth Theatre is an internationally-acclaimed youth development organization, but you may not know as much about us as you think! Do you have what it takes to be a Mosaic All Star? Take our quiz and find out!

Why LGBT+ Representation In Theatre, Film & TV Is Still so Important.

10 Reasons Why High School Theatre Is Extremely Rewarding