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Or, How to Get Beyond Trans Tropes

There have always been individuals who challenged gendered social norms. But Western social, medical, and political recognition of people who cross the boundaries of gender only truly began in the 20th century.

Transactivist performer and downtown New York theater star Becca Blackwell discusses  They, Themself and Schmerm, a fiercely vulnerable solo piece about tragic-comic transitions in life, family, sex, and gender.

Celebrating Dahl’s legacy in the hundredth anniversary of the author’s birth, the giant peach flys towards the A.R.T.

I was so riveted by Sarah Waters’ gasp-inducing story turns and moved by her epic tale of love, betrayal, and redemption that I was already envisioning Sue and Maud on a stage.

Sarah Waters’ books make explicit the hidden and hinted-at. Women’s dissatisfaction with the roles assigned them, class inequality, and lesbian desire all become visible.

Director Bill Rauch discusses his production of Fingersmith

The Easter Rising was widely recognized, even by some of the participants, as more of a symbolic gesture, the ignition of a spark, than the beginning of an actual war of independence.

Weaving a passionate lyricism from contemporary street speech, O’Casey helped to bring the inhabitants of Dublin’s tenements—and their struggles in famine, war, and grinding poverty— into the national spotlight.

Sean Holmes talks about his contemporary approach to O’Casey’s classic.