From The New York Times to Playbill to Vulture, the media has been sounding the alarm for months about the theatre industry being in crisis. But Alex, Danielle, and their guest Lauren Halvorsen think the systemic issues that led us here were problems long before anyone was publishing articles about it. Listen in as they break down and respond to The Discourse!

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Lauren Halvorsen is a dramaturg and writer based in Washington, DC. She has dramaturged over 40 new, contemporary, and classic plays and held artistic and literary positions at the Alley Theatre, City Theatre Company, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, The O'Neill, The Wilma Theater, and Studio Theatre, where she was the Associate Literary Director for nine years. Lauren writes Nothing for the Group, a weekly newsletter about the American theatre. She is currently working on projects for Theatre Washington, Woolly Mammoth, Baltimore Center Stage, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, and Long Wharf Theater.

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