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What It’s Like to Live a Queer Life in the United Arab Emirates

What It’s Like to Live a Queer Life in the United Arab Emirates

Gaar Adams Explores the Power of Performance in Abu Dhabi, From Concerts to Karaoke Bars

By Gaar Adams | October 3, 2025

Channeling Curiosity Into Language: How a Diverse Array of Influences Feeds Poetic Development

Channeling Curiosity Into Language: How a Diverse Array of Influences Feeds Poetic Development

Mónica de la Torre Discusses the Artists, Writers and Performers Who Inspire Her Creative Process

By Mónica de la Torre | October 29, 2024

A Deal With the Devil: What the Age-Old Faustian Bargain Reveals About the Modern World

A Deal With the Devil: What the Age-Old Faustian Bargain Reveals About the Modern World

Ed Simon on "The Most Important Story Ever Told," That of Humanity's Transactional Relationship With Evil

By Ed Simon | July 9, 2024

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

Rufi Thorpe Considers Wrestling As a Way of Revealing the Inner Self

By Rufi Thorpe | June 11, 2024

Revisiting Pilobolus: On Finding Community in Dance

Revisiting Pilobolus: On Finding Community in Dance

Robert Pranzatelli Explores the World of Performance With the Legendary Dance Group

By Robert Pranzatelli | April 11, 2024

Shock, Awe, and Fun: How David Jones Became David Bowie

Shock, Awe, and Fun: How David Jones Became David Bowie

Suzi Ronson on Witnessing the Rise of a Rock Icon

By Suzi Ronson | April 8, 2024

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The Artist is Banned for Violating Community Guidelines: On Belle Delphine, Marina Abramovic, and Womanhood-As-Performance

By Rafael Frumkin | February 16, 2024

Order vs. Randomness: What Math Can Teach Us About the Stage

By Stephen Abbott | June 9, 2023

Watch Ben Whishaw read Seamus Heaney's translation of "The Names of the Hare."

By Emily Temple | May 16, 2023

In Praise of Poet Voice

In Praise of Poet Voice

Dan O'Brien Defends a Much-Maligned Performance Style

By Dan O'Brien | July 11, 2022

Sopan Deb on Taking Writing Lessons from Improv

Sopan Deb on Taking Writing Lessons from Improv

"There are no mundane details."

By Sopan Deb | July 8, 2022

Is this the best book club ever?

Is this the best book club ever?

By Walker Caplan | June 24, 2021

Writerly Lessons From an Early '90s Improv Class

Writerly Lessons From an Early '90s Improv Class

Character, and Rejection">Joanna Hershon on What Theater Taught Her About Scene,
Character, and Rejection

By Joanna Hershon | April 27, 2020

Tommy Pico on Performance, Life on the Road, and Learning to Write

Tommy Pico on Performance, Life on the Road, and Learning to Write

Otherppl">In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 9, 2019

Seeking the Sublime in Sonic Youth

Seeking the Sublime in Sonic Youth

How Their Iconic Sound Brings Us to the Edge of Our Own Mortality

By Zachary Pace | April 25, 2018

Gregory Pardlo on Form, His Father, and Not Writing a Book About Race

Gregory Pardlo on Form, His Father, and Not Writing a Book About Race

Air Traffic">The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Talks his New Memoir in Essays, Air Traffic

By Kristen Martin | April 9, 2018

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