Gender and Sexuality on Broadway: You Oughta Know Better
Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals.
Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals.
New memoirs of 2 artists associated with London's Royal Court Theatre portray divergent quests to make work for themselves and for others.
The songwriter talks about adapting his beloved Muppet musical for the stage, about never growing up, and about the things you can learn from an audience.
From Stephen Sondheim preparing for 'West Side Story' to the legacy of Margo Jones, from one of theatre's worst fires to P.T. Barnum's American Museum.
The Cygnet Theatre commission awards the playwright $10,000 and an unrestricted time limit to create a new play.
For the critics' final episode, they consider the life and legacy of Sondheim and reflect on how theatre has grown and changed in the 4 years they've been podcasting.
The playwright reflects on her oft-produced take on the Greek myth about loss, and suggests both practical and philosophical approaches for future interpreters.
Classic Stage Company's new production shows how Sondheim and Weidman's triggering musical can play in an age of mass shootings and the Capitol insurrection.
The festival also introduced the new GROW Light designation to shine a light on additional artists and projects.
The two playwrights will receive support in the writing of new plays and the facilitating of relationships in the industry.
The awards, to be presented in January, celebrate the work of 8 individual educators and 2 institutions.
The new artistic director of Mosaic Theater Company emphasizes creative collaboration and community development in his vision for the future.
Following 15 years with the company, Santora will step down in June 2022.
Rader will receive $3,000 and her play 'The Helpers' will have a staged reading with Theater J.
Colón will receive $5,000 and additional support to develop a new work and hire a dramaturg.
Inaugural grants will go to Carla Ching, Josh Wilder, and Carolyn Ratteray.
Wareham departs the company after 11 years at the helm.
For theatre helmers Bartlett Sher and Mary Zimmerman, who both have shows in the new Met season, the music is the leader they follow.
A look at the fiscal state of the field from fall 2019 to fall 2020 shows a drop in ticket income and a spike in governmental support.
The new year-long effort aims to support artistic development at and among Baltimore Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Long Wharf, and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
The city's theatres are stumbling back to their feet, with mixed results and a seemingly cavalier attitude toward COVID.
He was like a father to many of us, so it shouldn't be surprising that he did what a good father does: He kept showing up, and showing his love.
Williams will succeed Mark Bernstein, who is retiring from the institution after over 34 years.
Holmes will oversee the academics and operations of PPA's eight degree programs.
His path-breaking musicals have handily outlasted their detractors, in part because they remain so singularly alive.