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Mike Davis, a journalist covering theatre in Chicago for WBEZ, has covered music, visual arts, dance, and theatre over the last 10 years. Davis was in Seattle covering the arts for KUOW when ACT ...
After efforts to secure the space, the company embarks on a journey to continue producing elsewhere and close out their time in the black box with ‘Head Over Heels.’ In its regional premiere, Celine ...
A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by John Goodwin, Harper and Row, New York, NY. 416 pp, $25 cloth. Available May.
An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...
Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals. Patten has said that she decided to continue to play Jo to honor all the queer people who ...
Jeremy O. Harris talks about the sexual politics of white supremacy, and about how he finds humor in horror (and vice versa). Jeremy O. Harris. (Photo by Andre D. Wagner for the New York Times) TONYA ...
Maria Irene Fornes’s work creates worlds onstage, not just through her play’s texts but through her acutely tuned sense of design. Long recognized as one of the most influential playwrights and ...
As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...
For more information about the actors in this story, scroll to the end or just click on their names. Carrie Coon sat in the corner of her apartment wearing a slip, heels, and pearls. She sipped her ...
NOTE: The futureStage Manifesto was collectively written by the futureStage Research Group at metaLAB at Harvard over the past year. With new expectations for media, culture, and presence in a ...
This piece is one in a series on disability and theatre. Many years ago, a writer emailed me to ask if I’d consult with the originating cast of their new production with an autistic central character.
Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre[1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...