Monday, 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…
Linked From The Interval at 08:01AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
The new play Gloria: A Life depicts Gloria Steinem looking back on her remarkable life and all of the women who shaped it. The show is written by Emily Mann, directed by Diane Paulus, and pr…
Linked From The Interval at 08:10AMMonday, November 19, 2018
In playwright Hansol Jung’s world of glorious magical realism, the Internet is portrayed by people singing in binary code and fathers turning into penguins who have lost their wings. Those…
Linked From The Interval at 09:08AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Usual Girls by Ming Peiffer and directed by Tyne Rafaeli centers around Kyeoung, a young Asian-American woman coming of age in the ‘90s and early 2000s, and the messy, sometimes dangerous,…
Linked From The Interval at 09:30AMThursday, November 8, 2018
Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced playwrights in America, but her plays have almost entirely been produced outside of NYC. Presented this fall at The Women’s Project, in a produ…
Linked From The Interval at 09:28AMMonday, November 5, 2018
In the new musical, The Prom, Caitlin Kinnunen plays a teenager who just wants to take her girlfriend to the high school prom. It’s Caitlin's first lead role in a Broadway musical. She…
Linked From The Interval at 08:16AMFriday, November 2, 2018
Have you ever wondered why The Interval, a theatre site, has political content? Editor Victoria Myers explains why The Interval considers spotlighting the politics of the community part of a…
Linked From The Interval at 08:44AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Playwright Miranda Rose Hall and director Margot Bordelon to discuss their latest work, "Plot Points in Our Sexual Development" at LCT3. The show, which is described by LCT as “a contempor…
Linked From The Interval at 09:00AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
With the midterm elections approaching, we wanted to do our part to help save democracy. We asked people we’ve interviewed to tell us about candidates, issues, and races that they care abo…
Linked From The Interval at 09:01AMThursday, October 25, 2018
The Thanksgiving Play, currently in previews at Playwrights Horizons, marks the New York debut of Larissa FastHorse and is believed to be the first time a play by a Native American has been …
Linked From The Interval at 08:14AMMonday, October 22, 2018
The new musical, Renascence, is about Edna St. Vincent Millay and is the first musical by Carmel Dean. We speak to Carmel about her love of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry, what it was l…
Linked From The Interval at 09:25AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
In Charise Castro Smith’s new play El Huracán, hurricanes both literal and figurative bear down on four generations of women as they confront their history, what they’ve lost, and what …
Linked From The Interval at 09:28AMThursday, October 11, 2018
Jenny Koons is not interested in playing by the rules of traditional theatre. Her productions are rooted in activism and community, like her A Midsummer Night’s Dream for The Public Theate…
Linked From The Interval at 09:24AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
A life in the theatre has unique challenges for people dealing with mental health conditions including instability, rejection, lack of financial resources, intense emotion, and more. We gath…
Linked From The Interval at 09:07AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Director Leigh Silverman put together Broadway's first all-female design team. Photographer Tess Mayer spent two afternoons with them at tech documenting these individuals in a room together…
Linked From The Interval at 08:34AMThursday, September 27, 2018
We now have a monthly Letter from the Editor! This month's is about the need to view women as individuals who do not need to justify their existence in creative fields.
Linked From The Interval at 07:39AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
For the last few years, there has been increasing interest around director Lila Neugebauer, with many theatre-watchers wondering when she’d make her Broadway debut. Well, now she is, with …
Linked From The Interval at 09:47AMMonday, September 24, 2018
Adam Guettel told the theatre community who he is. It is long past time for the theatre community to look at what type of community it truly is and for individuals with a platform to speak u…
Linked From The Interval at 08:29AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
We showcase seven more women who shaped the theatre landscape as we know it today. Some overcame gender or race discrimination but persevered at a time when the field was not welcoming. Som…
Linked From The Interval at 09:42AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
The Constitution—which is very in or very out right now depending on how you look at it—is the subject of What the Constitution Means to Me a new play written and starring Heidi Schreck.…
Linked From The Interval at 09:14AMTuesday, September 4, 2018
Geraldine Inoa and Gracie Gardner have a lot in common. Both are young writers who are relatively self-trained (neither chose to pursue an MFA) and who go back and forth between the worlds o…
Linked From The Interval at 08:57AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
In Head over Heels, Bonnie Milligan does not portray a typical princess. Her character, Princess Pamela, is hilarious, strong-willed to the point of throwing a tantrum onstage, and unabashed…
Linked From The Interval at 09:26AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Straight White Men, which marks Young Jean Lee's Broadway debut, as well as the first time a play by an Asian woman has been produced on Broadway. Young Jean has been a staple of the downtow…
Linked From The Interval at 08:36AMFriday, August 10, 2018
In recent years, there have been some quieter initiatives to address the lack of diversity among people working behind the scenes in theatre. One such initiative is the Broadway League’s D…
Linked From The Interval at 08:45AMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Ten years ago, Heidi Blickenstaff was part of the beloved musical [title of show]. Now, Heidi now finds herself in another rare position: after doing the stage musical of Disney’s Freaky F…
Linked From The Interval at 08:32AMThursday, August 2, 2018
Throughout the month of August, we’re asking a variety of artists to tell us about some of the books in their lives. First up, Jenn Colella tells us about some of her book-ish thoughts!
Linked From The Interval at 08:16AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
Charlotte Moore, co-founded of Irish Repertory Theatre, and Melissa Errico discuss their production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and their experiences working together as “two st…
Linked From The Interval at 08:21AMTuesday, July 31, 2018
One of the New York City Ballet’s most lauded principal dancers, Tiler Peck might be the woman to help change the classical dance-- and theatre-- world. She’s stepping into new leadersh…
Linked From The Interval at 09:32AMFriday, July 27, 2018
It’s once again time for the New York Musical Festival. NYMF’s goal is to support the development of new and diverse works of musical theatre. We asked a mix of artists involved—from p…
Linked From The Interval at 09:14AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
The past nine months have been full of firsts for choreographer Camille A. Brown. She made her Broadway debut as the choreographer for Once On This Island and then, a few months later, she m…
Linked From The Interval at 08:36AMMonday, July 23, 2018
Between Broadway seasons in New York City, the theatre world is not nearly as quiet as you might imagine. The summer months have become increasingly packed with theatre festivals. We talked …
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