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November 23, 2024

Theresa Rebeck: Precepts of Playwriting

What is central to my work is comedy. For me, there is a desperation in comedy that's very theatrical. And that you can ultimately get a play to a place…

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May 28, 2024

Emily Mann: The Humanist Code of Theater

The theater is essential to the health of a nation - of any democracy. And perhaps we are so impoverished right now is because of our inability to communicate with…

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December 5, 2022

Emma Goldman-Sherman: Living In Your Power

We can heal. I think it's really important to be in control of what we're taking in so that we don't feel that we have to worry...that we can feel…

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