Entertainment at the O'Neill Theater Center
Our Entertainment hub celebrates the O'Neill's lively creative energy across the stage, the screen, and festival seasons. Here you'll find compelling features, backstage perspectives, and cross-disciplinary stories that tie the center's artistic work to audiences around the globe.
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The Actor Who Chose Humanity Over an Algorithm
Look into a mirror and you should see a living person, not a cleverly engineered likeness. This piece explores what it means to keep real, human performance at the center of the craft.
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Lorraine Trollied Actress Remembered for Her Role and Impact
Every so often a performer comes along who does more than play a character — she gently mirrors pieces of our own lives back to us. We look back at a career that left a lasting mark.
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How a New Generation Is Making Shakespeare Feel Dangerous Again
Rather than treating Shakespeare as fragile literary porcelain, young artists are opening his work up, interrogating it, and restoring its startling humanity.
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The Rise of Immersive Theater: When the Audience Becomes the Actor
What once began with stage lights and a rising curtain now often continues with a whisper and a masked performer guiding you through the story. Immersive theater puts the audience inside the action.
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Why Theater Critics Are Losing Their Influence — And Why It Matters
Audiences still flock to the spotlight, yet something essential has slipped away. This story examines the shifting role of the critic and what its decline means for the art form.
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The Emotional Science Behind a Standing Ovation — and Why It Still Surprises Performers
A standing ovation reveals a wonderfully human impulse that rises in the body before the mind can catch up. We dig into the feelings and physiology behind that collective moment.
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How Social Media Is Rewriting the Script for Modern Theater — and Why Creators Are Leaning In
Social media is quietly reshaping modern theater with remarkable force, pushing productions to adapt and creators to embrace new ways of reaching audiences.
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Why Actors Are Fighting to Keep Stage Intimacy Sacred — The Movement Reshaping Performance Ethics
Performers are defending stage intimacy not because it is taboo, but because it deserves accuracy, respect, and care. This movement is changing how performance ethics are understood.
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How Pandemic Isolation Changed the Way Actors Connect — And Why It's Not Going Back
During the pandemic, actors lost more than their stages — they lost a vital dimension of human connection. Surprisingly, some of those changes have stayed with the profession.
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How Costume Designers Became the Storytellers of the Stage
Costume designers begin with fabric but end with identity. Today they are co-authors of every scene rather than mere suppliers of wardrobe.
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