A Stage Play About Nat Turner - On November 11, 1831, Nat Turner was hanged for his role in a slave uprising. But his name lived on as a dire warning to slave owners, even as it was an inspiration for their slaves.

What is color-blind casting and why is it a problem? Color-conscious casting considers the complexities of race and ethnicity and acknowledges these topics in the film, series, or production. The practice involves creators and CDs meaningfully engaging with race and ethnicity, their roles within a given narrative, and how that relates to socio-historical hierarchies of

Theatre vs. Theater The spelling of the word theater/theatre is one of the most oddly contested issues in the world of drama. For some curious reason, diehards cling to one variation or another with a variety of justifications about which one is "correct." Well, the answer is: Both and Neither. It depends on your nationality,

Want to celebrate a season but didn't find the right play and now it's too late for auditions and a month's rehearsals?Found a play you'd love to do but don't know if it will fit your audience?Have too many dark nights that are eating away at your budget with utility bills and rent but no

A new survey, by The Chronicle of Higher Education, surveyed nearly 1000 faculty members to find out the level of satisfaction they get from teaching students.

Here is an inexpensive and accessible way to ramp up student participation and learning. Try using Readers Theatre in your classroom. You can adapt the following suggestions to any classroom from elementary through higher education.   Why Readers Theatre? Increase student participation Reinforce learning in subject matter Help students develop language skills Develop student ability

According to T. S. Eliot, it is-- "breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire . . ." Photo by Bonnie Kittle on Unsplash But will May, June, July . . . be far behind? After a winter of political schemes, an uptick of public shootings, a plethora of investigations, finger-pointing, and obnoxious tweeting,

I never understood why being sensitive to others feelings about holidays (political correctness, an unfortunate term if I ever heard one) meant obliterating the best of Christmas. Marginalizing Christmas strikes me, probably unfairly, as the bully in the schoolyard who mutters, "If I can't have all the cake, I'll stomp on it so no one