Open Stages
A Compendium of Open Sources for Theater Educators & Practitioners
Theatermaking
Practical Considerations
This section includes some open source materials that deal with specific aspects of the theater-making practice.
Selected TED Talks
We jump-start this section with a selection of TED Talks related to theater-making. We will be adding less restricted licensed content shortly. According to TED, "You can stream TED Talks from TED.com or from TED’s official YouTube channel..." Their content is licensed under CC BY–NC–ND 4.0 This is the most restrictive license offered by CC. It allows people to use the unadapted work for noncommercial purposes only, and only as long as they give credit to the creator. They may also adapt the work for their own personal use but may not share any adaptations publicly.
A demonstration by Handspring Puppet Company on how this ancestral tradition can be adaptated to contemporary theater.
Swiss avant-garde theater-maker, Natasha Tsakos explains and showcases fragments from her multimedia, one-woman show "Upwake."
A master class on verbatim theater from writer, director, performer Anna Deaver Smith.