The Broadway Season Was Diverse Offstage Too, Not That You'd Notice
The invisibility of stage designers cuts both ways: They lack for recognition (see this week's Tonys), but they can also build diverse careers---if they get the chance.
The invisibility of stage designers cuts both ways: They lack for recognition (see this week's Tonys), but they can also build diverse careers---if they get the chance.
This coming Sunday the Tony Awards will again overlook the contributions of sound designers---an absence that screams louder each year.
The season will feature the company's first musical, and a remount of an audience favorite.
Other winners include 'She Loves Me,' 'A View From the Bridge,' 'Long Day's Journey Into Night,' and 'American Psycho.'
From Chicago to Dallas, from a beauty shop to the dance floor, it is another exciting week for theatre.
A stage adaptation of Claudia Rankine's poems turns out to be exactly what we needed to respond to our city and our nation's grief and division.
Adapting the beloved animated musical film for the stage, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, and Terrence McNally make another journey to the past.
Since improv comedy shows began cropping up in 2008, the Polish capital has become one of Europe's new hotspots for the art form.
Forget jukebox shows and rock stars; the American musical looks and sounds more like a jam session between indie bands and theatre artists.
Kevin Artigue, Mia Chung, and Nathan Dame will develop plays at this year's event.
The retiring drama teacher was recommended by her students and will be recognized at the 2016 Tony Awards.
This week's guest is Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, who is directing an all-male production of 'Taming of the Shrew.' Plus the editors discuss their summer plans.
From sibling performing groups to the opening of Westport Country Playhouse to Elaine May's return to NYC theatre, June was bustin' out all over with notable dates.
Also included are new works by Stein | Holum Projects, Tim Crouch, Jon Robin Baitz, Ngozi Anyanwu, and three local companies.
A costume designer and two actors will receive awards and development funds.
Justin Haslett has been named managing director, and Jerry Ruiz has been named associate artistic director.
A go-to director of new plays, Blain-Cruz likes to work on her feet---all the better to lead a journey through an experience to an idea.
The season will feature two world premieres and a studio workshop of a new play by Jackie Sibblies Drury.
For a new play about gun violence, Milwaukee Rep teamed with the Zeidler Center to turn post-show dialogues into engaging and deeply personal experiences.
The season will include a musical tribute to Johnny Cash, as well as a Sondheim classic.
This week's roundup takes audiences from a donut shop, to Russia in 1916, and off to Neverland.
Anderson will bring her experience working at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center to the company.
The executive producer is leaving her post at the theatre to focus on her family.
The program commissions playwrights to write plays for high school students from the five boroughs of New York City.
The Chicago theatre's new 10,000 square foot space will host educational programs and two residencies.