Category Archives: Race and Representation in America’s Theatres

The Writing Life x3: Creating a Diverse World

In this blog post, writer Patrick Gabridge talks about the need for white writers to specify the race of the characters in their plays and how the racial make-up of theatre companies make just as powerful a statement, if not moreso, about diversity in theatre. Read the article here.

Fairy Princess Diaries: Those Wounds Heal Ill, oh @TheWoosterGroup

This article talks about The Wooster Group’s production of Troilus and Cressida (renamed Cry, Trojans! ) in which they decided to portray the Trojans as a “pastiche fictional tribe” during the time the Native Americans inhabited the country. However, they did not cast any Native American actors in their production. Read the article here.

TCG Conference: To the Mountaintop

At the TCG Conference in San Diego this past June, playwright Kristoffer Diaz (The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity) gave remarks at the To the Mountaintop plenary. The session dealt with the future of diversity and inclusion in theatre. Read Diaz’s speech here.

HowlRound: What Happened When Critics Failed to Review My Latino Play

Director and professor Tlaloc Rivas talks about how no one from any English-language paper reviewed a show, Mariela en el Desierto, he directed at Aurora Theatre Company in Atlanta, GA. He explains how essential it is for works by Latino/as to be recognized and reviewed. Read the article here.