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In this week's episode of Kunafa and Shay, Marina and Nabra explore how Golden Thread Productions amplifies womenâs voices and mobilizes global artistic solidarity through What Do the Women Say? and 24 Hours for Palestine, where performance becomes archive, resistance, and collective action.â
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Don't miss out! This Monday,18 May 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with veteran performer and director Maria Striar. She co-founded Clubbed Thumb in 1996 and serves as its artistic director.â
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This monthâs I Don't Know How They Do It! diarist is in rehearsals for a theatre for young audiences (TYA) show and prepping for her next freelance project. The busy work week doesnât stop her from enjoying a winter festival with her family or hosting a fourteen-person holiday. â
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This week on Gender Euphoria: The Podcast is an interview with Baltimore Center Stageâs artist-in-residence Bo Frazier on the Trans History Project. The conversation covers what the initiative is doing to create counter-narratives in a political moment defined by trans erasure, plus a taste of the first five plays in development. â
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On 12 April, Hungarians voted by overwhelming majority to end authoritarian prime minister Viktor OrbĂĄnâs reign. Today on HowlRound, Todd London celebrates the theatre kids who helped make that happen and offers ten things we can learn from the 2020 protest movement at the University of Theater and Film Arts (SZFE).â
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In this week's episode of Kunafa and Shay, Evren Odcikin joins Marina and Nabra to unpack new play development as a site of cultural translation, experimentation, and refusal, exploring Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian dramaturgies and artistic processes.â
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This week on HowlRound, we're looking back at the 2026 Under the Radar Symposium. In this keynote, Daniel Alexander Jones draws evidence from the archive as an offering to our current crossroads, sharing insights about story as a means of connection and a matter of consciousness.â
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This Monday, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the award winning writer and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler) who created The Vagina Monologues and many other activist projects.â
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You can catch the full video on Monday, 11 May, at the link in our bio!â
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V is a Tony and Obie award-winning, New York Times best-selling playwright, author, and activist with plays and books published in over forty-eight languages and performed in over 140 countries. The founder of V-Day, the global grassroots movement to end violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender, those who hold fluid identities, and nonbinary people), and the planet, she is also the founder of One Billion Rising, the biggest mass action campaign to end violence against all women and girls in over 200 countries, and the co-founder of City of Joy, a revolutionary leadership center for Congolese women survivors in Bukavu, DRC.
This week on Gender Euphoria: The Podcast, Nicolas continues their conversation with Keyshia Pearl and Roney Jones, digging into LOUD Queer Youth Theatreâs youth-led, adult-supported program model and how the ensemble provides long-term community, and artistic and professional development for Black and indigenous trans and queer youth. â
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