Heather Waters, Author at The Theatre Times

Heather Waters

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Heather Waters was dramaturg for M(o)ther--an online performance featuring international actors and musicians produced by Boston Experimental Theatre. She interviewed Boston Experimental Theatre's artistic director about the production in The Theatre Times. Several of her theater and opera reviews have appeared in The Theatre Times since 2017. A NY-based theater company, New World Theatre, read her full-length play, entitled Oracle Bones, as part of its 2006 summer reading series. Her poetry and essays have appeared in several small journals and online publications in the U.S., and in the U.K. She participated in a New York Institute for the Humanities seminar, Love and Let Die, in June 2013.

Keeping Alive the U.N.’s Dialogue Among Civilizations – as Theatre

Posted by Heather Waters | 6th Oct 2023 | Boston, Interview, United States of America

This is the third of a series of articles to discuss the Dialogue of Civilizations theater...

Theater, A Major Job Sector

Posted by Heather Waters | 2nd Apr 2023 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Science, Transmedia

That AI is poised to take over countless jobs, wipe out entire job sectors, is all over the news...

“Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King” and Dialogue of Civilizations at American Repertory Theater: An Interview with the Creative Team

Posted by Heather Waters | 9th Jan 2023 | Boston, Interview, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King, will be performed January 12 – 15, 2023, at the Loeb...

In Conversation with Hanane Hajj Ali

Posted by Heather Waters | 12th Feb 2021 | Interview, Lebanon, Theatre and Politics

The occasion of this interview is Hanane Hajj Ali was chosen to receive the 2020 Gilder/Coigney...

21st Century Dreamin’: Theater — a Major Job Sector

Posted by Heather Waters | 28th Nov 2020 | Essay, Theatre and Science

Once the COVID-19 pandemic finally relinquishes its control of the world economy, the impact of...

“Sweat” at Left Edge Theatre

Posted by Heather Waters | 8th Oct 2020 | Los Angeles, Playwriting, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Sweat, by Lynn Nottage, is a cautionary tale about how the effects of poverty, or the threat of...

Mother and the Other and a Dialogue Among Civilizations

Posted by Heather Waters | 2nd Aug 2020 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Iraq, South Africa, Transcultural Collaborations, Transmedia, Turkey

M(O)ther is an international online collaboration to be shown August 9, 2020: 2pm EST, 8pm South...

Betraying Kane, the Musical: “4.48 Psychosis” Venables’ Operatic Version

Posted by Heather Waters | 18th Jan 2019 | Prototype 2019, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom, United States of America

4.48 Psychosis, by Sarah Kane, was turned into an opera by composer Philip Venables in a...

“SeagullMachine” – The Assembly Mixes Chekhov and Müller

Posted by Heather Waters | 5th May 2018 | Acting, New York, Review, United States of America

The lights never go down on the audience, the result being we all play a part in the production, and there are no spectators. La MaMa E.T.C. is a beautiful, decrepit, wonderfully haunted space; to redefine audience roles and do away with spectators is an adventurous, fun design for this stage.