How does an actor play a character who can’t find the words to express themselves?
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Author: Steven Strauss
What You Do with a B.A. in English
Societies consternate themselves over how to teach the next generation to become quality citizens.
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Intentionally Mala
There’s a contradiction at the heart of one-person plays about trauma.
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Who Killed My Distance
And now, we return to one of Write All Nite’s favorite concepts: deliberately-ineffectual art that serves the art’s ultimate effect.
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Which Way Back to Me
For theater geeks of a certain age, Which Way to the Stage is as reflective as art gets.
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Circling the Drain
A musical version of Romeo and Juliet.
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Montana Will Be My Story
Art can be transportive, and it can be reflective.
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A Case for the Existence of Perspective
The dramaturgy of A Case for the Existence of God’s staging doubles as existential philosophy.
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Start Making Sense by Stop Making Sense
Should abstract art clarify the abstraction so that audiences can cohere it into some sort of comprehensible whole?
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In Good Company
Lyrics can be open to multiple interpretations that change their meaning.
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