Heather Christian, MacArthur's Newest Genius
The composer and playwright just received the coveted grant. On a visit to the Hayden Planetarium"which includes a video narrated by Pedro Pascal"she considers the cosmic collisions that got…
The composer and playwright just received the coveted grant. On a visit to the Hayden Planetarium"which includes a video narrated by Pedro Pascal"she considers the cosmic collisions that got…
photographed by ANNIE LEIBOVITZ On a wintry morning, I find myself in an airplane hangar"size soundstage in Astoria, Queens. It's one of the few spaces in New York City vast enough to accomm…
If you are in the market for revelatory"and pulse-quickening"productions of plays that you thought you knew all too well, then the Belgian director Ivo van Hove is your man. On the heels of …
As the Public Theater's artistic director, Oskar Eustis has nurtured one game-changing hit after another (Hamilton, anyone?). Adam Green goes behind the scenes.
One of the hallmarks of genius is an ability to spot connections between seemingly disparate things and then go on to create something that reveals the world in a new light. The young lyrici…
If you were looking for a work of fiction to adapt for the stage, one terrible idea would be a beloved children's book about the horrors of World War I, narrated by a horse. Another would be…
Public funding for the arts is not an easy sell to the unconverted. The recently-retired head of the National Endowment of the Arts, Rocco Landesman, entered the department in the midst of t…
(Photo by Sarah Krulwich (NY Times). Pictured: Sleep No More) Twenty years ago — good god, yes, twenty years ago — I played the legendary computer game Myst for the first time. I…