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(Photo by Deborah Alexander of Jane the Plain. This shot felt right for this post, because we’re going to need to hustle to reach our Living Ticket goals!) So, you might be wondering…how is all this Living Ticket and Open Book stuff turning out for Flux? As part of our commitment to transparency, we’ll be…

(Post and photos by Alisha Spielmann with an assist from August Schulenburg.) (What is Flux Sunday?) We returned to Judson for a tag-team effort where Gus launched the Flux Sunday with the help of daughter Mercena, before tagging out to Alisha, who brought the Sunday home. It was a smaller turn-out than usual, but much…

(Post by August Schulenburg, iPhone photos by Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Matthew Trumbull, Jennifer Kipley. (What is Flux Sunday?) Our third Flux Sunday at the wonderful Loisaida Center kicked off with Isaiah filming a read-through of the first FluxForward pages submitted to us thus far, from Adam Szymkowicz’s gender-bending Robin Hood play (yup, just as much fun…

(Post by Jason Tseng. Picture by Anna Rahn of multiple BREATHE FREE rehearsals.) I wasn’t planning on getting my hands dirty. When I was asked to join the planning committee for Flux’s Food:Soul – BREATHE FREE event, I soon learned that the day of the event I would be out of town on a business trip….

 (Post by Christine Zagrobelny.) Early in my research for this piece, these removal numbers from the Department of Homeland security, stretching from 1892 to 2013 caught my attention.  I wanted to understand how the staggering jump during the last ~10 years happened. I took a preliminary look at the history of immigration legislation, but the…

(Photos and post by Emily Hartford. Pictured: Collin McConnell, Antonio Minino, Daryl Lathon, Carl Li, Stephanie Willing, Lori E. Parquet.) Whenever I read or think about our country’s immigration policies— the way we talk about the laws that alter so many families’ lives, the ways we deal with the people who come in search of the American…

Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum. Salvage tells the story of Noma and Akiko, two government officials searching for precious objects through what’s left of a post-catastrophe New York City. When their manager Dennis hires Mandy, a veteran from America’s many wars, the searchers discover things that make them question their mission, and whether it’s time to let their…

The Salvage Project: Behind every special object we keep, there’s something even more important: a story. From the Rockaways to Fukushima, from New Orleans to Port-au-Prince, our world continues to grapple with how to rebuild after disaster. What do we let go of from Before, and what do we search for in the ruins of After? With…

We’re thrilled to announce that our inaugural FluxForward playwrights are Kevin R. Free, Chisa Hutchinson, Nandita Shenoy and Adam Szymkowicz! We’re so grateful to all the playwrights that applied and went through the multiple steps of our first FluxForward selection process. It was a truly difficult decision, but we’re so excited to have landed on…

(Post and photo above by August Schulenburg. Photos below by Isaiah Tanenbaum.) (What is Flux Sunday?) We returned to Judson for our most jam-packed Flux Sunday of 2015. The theme of the Sunday, if you were wont to find one, was a fascination with very unusual after/other lives: sim worlds, churches of the undead, ghosts…