Note to Self: The only person you can heal, change, and fix is yourself.    Let go of the idea that you have to be the savior for everyone a...

Four years ago exactly I met Alec Silver on the first day of rehearsal at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. I introduced myself with a shocked-...

On November 4, 2022, five character actors drove to the airport having recently completed a week-long workshop at the Cleveland Playhouse of...

What a magnificent experience from top to tail. One never knows how an away-from-home experience will go— personally or creatively, but fr...

Their friends looked shocked—said not possible , said how sad . The trees carried on with their treeish lives—stately except when they shed ...

  End of Summer… Sure sure, this photo is a thirst trap (and I’m 39 so that’s already a feminist STATEMENT) but very VERY real talk: I have...

Ah, the healing and transcendent power of music, theatre, true friendship and community. Thank you Transport Group for the chance to retur...

a little perspective Dear Al,  I have a career-related question and would love some advice:  I just got re-offered my national tour contract...

My name is Alexandra Silber. And a legal right to safe abortions—as safe and accessible healthcare— is a very personal issue for me. Now it ...

Have you been to rock bottom? No shame, fellow rock-bottom-visitors; I’ve been there! But I want to put forth a not-always-meme-able idea:...

For the last 18 months I have been taking an online poetry class over Zoom. Oh, how I loved it! It was a place of extraordinary artistic res...

—I nodded. Removing my organs would save me,     but the scar tissue from healing guaranteed biological theft.   Yet how could I prize the p...