Arts & Theater
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Artists from Washington, D.C., Reflect on One Year Under Siege
Join Mosaic Theater Company of D.C. for the kickoff of its 2026–27 season and the premiere of four original short…
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Experiencing a Protactile Performance of Touch of Slavery
During the performance, each of these stories was conveyed through tactile cues such as scratches, taps, and rhythmic pressure. These…
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A Ghost in Theory, an Elephant in the Room
During my final year of undergrad, I was cast as Constance, the token fat character in the Ride the Cyclone,…
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A Conversation with Abigail Gampel
On 14 September 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with multi-hyphenate Abigail Gampel. She is a writer, performer, visual artist,…
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I Don’t Know How She Survives Tech Week with Five Jobs, Two Kids, and Only One Nap
Monday 7:20 a.m.: Alarm clock goes off. But the five-year-old has already woken me up at 6:45, asking if he…
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2026 Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval of New Latinx Musicals
Website designed and built by Giant Rabbit. HowlRound Theatre Commons is a digital platform. We acknowledge the legacy of colonization…
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Ghadar Geet and the Unfinished Work of Revolution
In my correspondence with Singh after the performance, she described this process as one of discovery. “It has always felt…
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Re-Imagining Actor Training in Community and Outside the Academy
This panel explores the community need that led to the creation of the Actor Training Laboratorio in Community, a Latinx…
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Recorded, Relived, Reactivated: “These Men Are Potential Rapists” and the Women’s Coalition for Change
The film featured members of the Coalition dressed head to toe in anonymous black. They stepped forward, one reciting spoken…
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Longing, Belonging, and Exile in Esen Özman’s Medea’s Head
On 18 December 2025, International Migrants Day, a lone woman stands on a small stage in İstanbul and speaks, not…
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