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Black and white portrait of Norwegian author and 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient Jon Fosse staring directly at the camera.

How Nobel Prize鈥搘inning author Jon Fosse was found in translation

October 6, 2023

Open Letter鈥檚 Chad Post on discovering the Norwegian author for English audiences鈥攁nd the importance of foreign translation presses today.

Promotional artwork shows the colors of the trans flag with the words "Based on Virginia Woolf's gender-bending masterpiece Orlando by Sarah Ruhl" with an Elizabethan color and a ring.

The 鈥榝irst English language trans novel,鈥� adapted for stage

September 30, 2023

The International Theatre program鈥檚 production of Orlando promises 鈥渁 wild ride鈥� and a serious reflection on the fluidity of identity.

Five members of Digital Media Studies and MAG partnership to promote arts integration and digital equity standing in row, smiling.

Digital Media Studies and the Memorial Art Gallery team up in digital equity project

With a Museum Initiative grant, a joint project of Verizon and NYC Media Lab, the Memorial Art Gallery and recent digital media studies graduates team up to expand the museum's digital reach.

Two actors performing a scene on stage that benefited from the help of an intimacy director, also known as an intimacy coordinator when used on film or tv sets.

Intimacy directing is making a difference on stage and beyond

In 91原创鈥檚 International Theatre Program, intimacy directing is playing a growing role.

Crop of book cover art for Dangerous Children by Kenneth Gross.

When fictional children become stranger things

Teaching an undergraduate class on 鈥榙angerous鈥� children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross鈥檚 latest book.

Close-up photo of Steven Schottenfeld, author of This Room Is Made of Noise.

Questions of character and motives drive professor鈥檚 new novel

In Stephen Schottenfeld鈥檚 This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What鈥檚 a reader to think?

Mellon grant supports a close-up on close-ups

A 91原创 research team is part of an inter-institutional project to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television鈥檚 most powerful techniques.

Black and white archival photo of Russell Peck holding a book and teaching in front of a classroom full of students.

Russell Peck: The 鈥榠deal of what a humanities professor ought to be鈥�

English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.

Actor playing Susanna in "The Crucible" fixes her costume in a mirror backstage.

Changing the narrative about Blackness on the stage

February 14, 2023

By partnering with Black actors and artists, the International Theatre Program鈥檚 recent productions help give new dimension to marginalized characters.

Black and white photo of the four members of Freedom Singers, four gospel musicians from Georgia, singing and clapping.

Is gospel music losing its Black roots?

November 15, 2022

Musicologist Cory Hunter identifies a notable contemporary shift in the century-old musical form.

two student actors seated on a stage, both looking away from each other.

Sam Chanse play premieres at Sloan Performing Arts Center

September 27, 2022

Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the International Theatre Program鈥檚 New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights

Jericho Brown seated in a red chair in a field of flowers.

Plutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown

August 31, 2022

The Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning poet will give a reading as part of the Rochester鈥檚 202鈥�23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series鈥攐ne of the nation鈥檚 oldest literary reading series.