Monday, June 3, 2019
Inspired by What the Constitution Means to Me, we asked 15 photographers from around the country to photograph teenagers in their communities ranging in age from 13 to 20. Each photographer …
Linked From The Interval at 08:11AMThursday, May 30, 2019
The small, downtown theatre company Clubbed Thumb has become a force in new American plays. The woman behind all of this is Maria Striar, founder and Producing Artistic Director of Clubbed T…
Linked From The Interval at 07:46AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Jayne Houdyshell and Elizabeth Marvel are both currently starring on Broadway in a genderbending adaptation of King Lear. Elizabeth plays Lear’s eldest daughter, the conniving and ambitiou…
Linked From The Interval at 08:19AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
This season, two of the most complicated sets on Broadway were designed by Rachel Hauck. For the musical Hadestown, Hauck had the task of figuring out a design for a show that lives in metap…
Linked From The Interval at 09:52AMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Lilli Cooper made her Broadway debut as Martha in the original Broadway cast of the musical Spring Awakening, back when she was still in high school. Currently, Lilli is starring as Julie in…
Linked From The Interval at 08:27AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
For Roundabout Theatre Company’s current revival of Kiss Me, Kate, Amanda Green was brought on board to write additional material. We speak with Amanda about her journey to becoming a musi…
Linked From The Interval at 08:50AMThursday, May 2, 2019
Sarah Lunnie is a dramaturg extraordinaire, focusing on the development of brand new dramatic works. This spring, three Broadway and Off-Broadway shows Sarah has worked on all opened within …
Linked From The Interval at 09:04AMMonday, April 29, 2019
For the past five years, Laurie Woolery has led or helped lead The Public Theater’s Public Works program, first as Associate Director (2014-2017), and now as Director. This spring, Laurie …
Linked From The Interval at 08:31AMThursday, April 25, 2019
The costume design field can vary widely in process from designing costumes that will be built from scratch to scavenging through vintage stores to find the perfect item, all while having to…
Linked From The Interval at 08:30AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Stephanie Hsu trained as an experimental theatre artist and never expected to be on Broadway. But after making her Broadway debut last year as Karen the Computer in SpongeBob SquarePants, sh…
Linked From The Interval at 09:21AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Hadestown is poetry, not prose, as its creators—director Rachel Chavkin and composer Anaïs Mitchell—will tell you. The musical, which is sung through, is an interpretation and theatrica…
Linked From The Interval at 08:52AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
In Halley Feiffer’s new play The Pain of My Belligerence, the story focuses on Cat (played by Feiffer) and her desire and difficulty at figuring out how to function in a world where the ru…
Linked From The Interval at 09:40AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Last summer, Clubbed Thumb had one of its most successful SummerWorks productions: Plano. The play, which is about three sisters and three mysterious plagues, was directed by Taylor Reynold…
Linked From The Interval at 08:46AMThursday, March 28, 2019
Jennifer Ashley Tepper is not even 35, but already the theatre historian and producer. Jen is currently making her debut as an above-the-title Broadway producer on the new musical Be More Ch…
Linked From The Interval at 09:20AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Amanda Duarte has turned elements of her life into a cabaret show, Amanda Duarte: Staying Alive at Joe’s Pub. The show chronicles her life after the end of her long term marriage, which co…
Linked From The Interval at 09:16AMMonday, March 25, 2019
Kate Baldwin first gained major attention for Finian’s Rainbow, which earned her first Tony Award nomination. She then went on to originate roles in Giant, Big Fish, and Songbird, and rece…
Linked From The Interval at 09:11AMThursday, March 21, 2019
Danya Taymor is a director on the brink of firmly establishing herself as no longer emerging, but a sought after interpreter of new work. For the last few years, she’s worked consistently …
Linked From The Interval at 07:46AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Sara Mearns joined the company of the New York City Ballet in 2004, having already apprenticed and studied at the School of American Ballet, and by 2008 she became a principal dancer with th…
Linked From The Interval at 08:40AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Rehana Lew Mirza is a playwright, bookwriter, and filmmaker whose work often focuses on highlighting the South Asian experience. Her latest play Hatef**k, which was featured on the 2017 Kilr…
Linked From The Interval at 08:51AMThursday, March 7, 2019
In the new play Nylon, written by Sofia Alvarez, Anna, a woman in her early thirties played by Sheila Vand, has to confront the choices she made in her twenties and how they reverberate into…
Linked From The Interval at 08:44AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Out of the 21 plays currently on Broadway or are upcoming this season, only three (a dismal 14%) are directed by women. However, Off-Broadway, there is a vibrant group of emerging new direct…
Linked From The Interval at 09:48AMTuesday, February 26, 2019
Kamilah Forbes is currently making her Signature Theatre debut directing a revival of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. A theatre and television producer, as well as director, Kamilah is also in …
Linked From The Interval at 08:28AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
In Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play Marys Seacole, currently receiving its premiere production at LCT3 at Lincoln Center, the concept of care—who gives it and what it means—is explored…
Linked From The Interval at 09:24AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
When Lear deBessonet was ten years old, she made the decision to live for God. Now deBessonet is responsible for some of the largest and most inclusive theatre productions in NYC. On the hor…
Linked From The Interval at 07:56AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
We speak with members of the cast and creative team of Hurricane Diane, the new play by Pulitzer finalist Madeleine George and directed by Leigh Silverman. With a nod to Greek drama, Hurrica…
Linked From The Interval at 09:49AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Continuing the exploration of women in the arts who also own businesses, we speak with four women with diverse backgrounds—some arts related, some not—who run Bohemia Realty Group, a rea…
Linked From The Interval at 09:11AMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Mies Julie, an adaptation of Miss Julie by Yaël Farber set in post-Apartheid South Africa, and The Dance of Death, adapted by Conor McPherson, are currently being presented at Classic Stage…
Linked From The Interval at 09:03AMWednesday, January 16, 2019
Leah Nanako Winkler’s new play, God Said This, is just beginning performances at Primary Stages. We speak with her about her growth as a writer, what it was like to revisit the world of Ke…
Linked From The Interval at 09:35AMTuesday, January 8, 2019
In the new musical The Prom, Tony winner Beth Leavel plays the character of a Tony winning Broadway actress. This is not the first time that Beth has portrayed a satirical theatre diva; her …
Linked From The Interval at 09:36AMMonday, December 17, 2018
The 2018/19 Broadway season has a record number of female music directors. However, jobs still tend to go to white men. Recently, there have been efforts made to change that. We speak to mus…
Linked From The Interval at 09:27AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me is an extraordinary, singular work of genius. It's electrified the New York theatre, and speaks to the past, present, and future all at once…
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