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  • Space for rent

    Editorial
    Editor's Note 2015: Be aware that some of this information may be out of date. This article was originally published...
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  • Rehearsal in progress

    Editorial
    The doors open at the Guthrie rehearsal studios.

    The doors open at the Guthrie rehearsal studios.

    Makeup artist Crist Ballas helps Clarence Wethern apply bruises for Theatre Pro Rata's Killer Joe.

    Makeup artist Crist Ballas helps Clarence Wethern apply bruises for Theatre Pro...

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  • The standard rehearsal

    Editorial

    Rattle those pots and pans

    In Skokie, Illinois, on Dempster Street, is a fifty-year-old Italian restaurant that I briefly worked...

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  • Harrumph

    Editorial

    I don’t think the word “harrumph” is in the dictionary. However, I will pause in writing this to log onto...

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  • Basic instinct

    Editorial

    People outside of dance often ask how dance is made. How do we make movement? What do we actually do...

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  • Simplicity

    Editorial

    Theater causes us to connect with other human beings as we meet together in the same room to engage our...

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  • Mirror nature, my ass

    Editorial

    Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this—special observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty...

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  • Useless is useful

    Editorial

    In one of his most frequently cited aphorisms, Oscar Wilde famously declared, “All art is quite useless.”1 Rather than...

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  • Raw honesty

    Editorial

    SHÁ: Alan Berks called and wants us to write something on the function of the performing arts. I'm thinking maybe...

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  • A war zone

    Editorial

    Lights up.

    Four Privates from the H for Humor Company (the world renowned infantry division comprised completely of Theater Artists)...

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  • Administrative artists

    Editorial

    It all started with my quest for a quote—a well-articulated, grounded, brilliant few words that would act as a...

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  • A dog at the table

    Editorial

    As we all know, theater and dance have their roots in ancient ritual, during a time when the daily spiritual...

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