Tag: Theater

A Play and New Perspectives

In the summer of 2018, I took a trip to England where I had the opportunity to truly explore the city of London for the first time. One…

Shakespeare at Winedale and the Winedale Historical Center, near Round Top, Texas

Tucked away into Central Texas’ Hill Country is the repurposed ghost town of Winedale. Built by German immigrants in the nineteenth century, it nowadays features several creaky homes,…

Transforming Loss into Artistic Expression

In this video recording, actor and musician Noah Reid describes the way that a Neil Young song allowed him to understand and portray the way that loss shaped…

How Hamilton Restored My Belief in Writing

First, above all else, I consider myself a student of literature. Perhaps I’ve chosen this phrase to generalize my pursuits, or maybe to conceal the small place in…

Contingent Bodies: Encountering the DisAbility Projects

Ann Fox describes her first encounter with The DisAbility Project, a St. Louis-based performance group. Humor, skits, and monologues reflecting the experiences of disabled people helped her understand…

A Lifetime of Humanities Moments

Some years ago, I was asked to give a lecture to students enrolled in a small university’s humanities program describing the personal epiphany I experienced which led to…

Fathers and Sons

In this video, Scott Gartlan discusses his reaction to seeing Arthur Miller’s 1947 play All My Sons and seeing deep connections between the play’s narrative and his own…

Remembering the Music

When I was in elementary school I didn’t know anything about racial conflict or even recognize there were racial differences between the kids at my school. My classmates…

Not Too Far Off

While I was a teenager about to go off to college, I watched Death of a Salesman at the theater. At the time I was struggling with the…