WORT 89.9FM Madison · Hairspray! Review! Hairspray! the musical was at Overture Center until last Sunday. I went to its opening night last Wednesday the 23rd and witnessed its brilliant, […]
Stagehand Union Working Through Pandemic
WORT 89.9FM Madison · Stagehand Union Working Through Pandemic Have you ever thought about what happens in a theater after that mainstage curtain pulls to a close? The stage seems […]
Film and Theatre Workers Advocate for On-Set Safety
Two weeks after the tragic accidental shooting on the film set of Rust in Santa Fe, New Mexico, today we take a close look at the issues of on-set/on-stage safety […]
Telling the Story of the Pandemic on Stage
In the fifth century B.C.E., the City of Athens was laid low with a terrible plague that killed many of the Ancient Greek city’s citizens. In 1998, researchers extracted dental […]
Having Impossible Conversations through Art
“When difference is an inextricable truth of our reality, how can the art of conversation become a strategy for survival?” This is the question at the heart of Primer for […]
Care Work and Our Responsibility to the Elderly
The front page of Sunday’s New York Times featured a list of one thousand names of Americans who have died from coronavirus. At the time of publication, the COVID-19 death […]