The founding artistic director of Double Edge Theatre talks about the process of moving from Boston to rural Western Massachusetts where the theatre has become part of the Ashfield community.

For decades, Anna Deavere Smith has been a pioneer in solo performance art, engaging contemporary issues and social justice. Notes from the Field , the centerpiece of Smith’s latest endeavor, The Pipeline Project , explores the school-to-prison pipeline.

Christopher Chen’s Caught in the Play Company’s 2016 production at La MaMa provokes its spectators by denying them easy access to “truth,” either in the theatre or in the social life that theatre represents. By investigating the situation of dissident artists in today’s China, Caught engages questions about truth in and beyond art. In Caught very little turns out to be what it seems.

Donald J. Trump, like it or not, is POTUS. This president is also a Caligula, a fool-king, and a trickster. He is a performer rather than an actor: someone who inhabits his own (narcissistic) persona to an extreme degree, not someone who follows a prescribed script. His policies, executive orders, and appointments show he is cruel, dangerous, unpredictable, and entertaining.

In Becoming - Corpus Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya have created a work about the misapprehensions of what appears before us followed by revelations of what we are able to see: illusion without magic or otherworldliness, fantastical imagery linking memory to the lurking presence of the uncanny.

The Builders Association construct their multimedia extravaganzas by means of intense and prolonged research, workshop experiments, interactions among participating artists, and a deep knowledge of postmodern globalized societies. Artistic director Marianne Weems, dramaturg-writer James Gibbs, and performer-writer Moe Angelos in conversation with Richard Schechner range over TBA's deeply collaborative methods and how these have developed from early influences to their most recent works.