Theatre Upstanders
Essays and provocations for a theatre that refuses to be a bystander—confronting power, politics, labor, and the systems we inherited while imagining what we build next.
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If the Movement Is Dead, Hand Over the Keys.
Cleveland Play House was founded in 1915. By the time the postwar regional theater movement was in full swing, Cleveland had been in the business of decentralizing theater from Broadway for decades. In 1919, its president, Walter Flory, sai...
Theatre Wants Professional Artists. It Just Doesn’t Want to Employ Them.
Sixteen production jobs on Chicago’s principal theatre job board offered, between them, about $6,600. That money was meant to pay at least sixteen people.
One company offered $100 to direct all or part of a three-week project. Another soug...
We Built Theatres. We Forgot to Build a Public.
Michael Rohd asked the question the last essay had avoided.
The previous essay, “The Nonprofit Theatre Is Dead. Good.,” argued that the end of one institutional model need not mean the end of theatre. It proposed a commonwealth of shared i...
The Nonprofit Theatre Is Dead. Good.
When Oskar Eustis announced that he would step down as artistic director of the Public Theater, he gave the New York Times the quote that will probably follow him out the door:
“The American nonprofit theater movement is over.”
It is an...
Your Values Are in the Payroll
Let me tell you about a nonprofit theatre.
I am not going to name it. Not because its choices should be protected from scrutiny, but because naming it would let the rest of the field pretend this is one institution’s problem. It would turn...
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