James R. Dixon on Cultural Advising

Being a Cultural Advisor was never something that I aspired to be. As a Black queer theatre-maker and arts administrator in a predominantly white and heteronormative industry, the need for one became even more clear for me. It is extremely important for us to tell our own stories and on too many occasions we often […]

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Home/Place with Ken Boddie

Home/Place is a Company Innovation project conceived by Jennifer Lin, designed to create a collaborative dialogue between artists and audience. The project began with an invitation for members of the community to submit images and text in response to three prompts: The home I was born to, The road I traveled, and The home I made. […]

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Home/Place with Ronni Lacroute

Home/Place is a Company Innovation project conceived by Jennifer Lin, designed to create a collaborative dialogue between artists and audience. The project began with an invitation for members of the community to submit images and text in response to three prompts: The home I was born to, The road I traveled, and The home I made. […]

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Home/Place with Sue How

Home/Place is a Company Innovation project conceived by Jennifer Lin, designed to create a collaborative dialogue between artists and audience. The project began with an invitation for members of the community to submit images and text in response to three prompts: The home I was born to, The road I traveled, and The home I […]

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Home/Place with Mary Anne Cassin

Home/Place is a Company Innovation project conceived by Jennifer Lin, designed to create a collaborative dialogue between artists and audience. The project began with an invitation for members of the community to submit images and text in response to three prompts: The home I was born to, The road I traveled, and The home I […]

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Introducing Home/Place

Over the years we have explored small Irish towns, families, artists, lovers, friends, plays within plays, musicals, graphic novels, love, death, memory and revolution. You have taken these journeys with us. Sometimes we have spoken to each other about what we saw, or felt, or thought. But most of the time we have not. We have merely […]

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Art and the Handshake

Welcome back to the Production Manager Corner. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Michelle Kashinsky and I’m the Production Manager at Third Rail Repertory Theatre. I’ve been stepping out from behind our brilliant design teams to offer my perspective on how we move forward in this new world. I’ve been […]

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Incognito: The World We Were Creating

Welcome to the Production Manager Corner. My name is Michelle Kashinsky and this is my second season as Production Manager for Third Rail. I’m usually behind the scenes, making sure the designers and director have what they need in the room to do their beautiful work. I help the team keep on task, on schedule, […]

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Incognito: Dramaturgical Notes

Incognito Dramaturgical Notes by Brian Myers Cognition All this confirms me in thinking that we’re splinters and mosaics; not, as they used to hold, immaculate, monolithic, consistent wholes. Virginia Woolf When a personal computer starts up, you see a screen we conventionally call the desktop. On the desktop you might see folders, and inside the […]

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Incognito: A Tribute to Opening Night

In honor of what would have been Third Rail’s opening night of Incognito by Nick Payne, Core Company Members Maureen Porter and Darius Pierce have decided to go truly incognito, and perform one of their scenes disguised as remarkably talented children. Here to introduce one of the play’s interwoven storylines that follows (literally) the brain […]

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