 American Theatre Magazine recently announced that Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House Part 2 is the most produced play this year. It will be staged at 27 theaters nationwide during the 2018-19…
 William Jackson Harper's impressive debut play Travisville, though set in the 1960s, feels like a contemporary piece tackling issues of race, gentrification, and political revolution. W…
 Two women and lifelong friends are stranded together in a faraway land. That deceptively simple premise is the impetus for Argentinian playwright ArÃstides Vargas' poetic, funny, and…
 Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand is an adaptation from Federico GarcÃa Lorca´s seminal The House of Bernarda Alba inspired by real life stories of Creole women of co…
 Darrel Alejandro Holnes' Bird of Pray (recently featured as part of the Brick Theater's Festival of Lies) beautifully uses spoken word, language, and dance to illuminate issues of race,…
 In 1976, three sisters " Gloria Miguel, Muriel Miguel and Lisa Mayo (née Elizabeth Miguel) from Kuna and Rappahannock ancestry " formed the legendary Spiderwoman Theater, the first ind…
 On a rainy Monday, I stopped by Teatro LaTea, located on the second floor of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center on the Lower East Side. LaTea is hosting a residency of the internat…
 We sat down with the entire cast of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire on a Saturday afternoon, now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, to talk about interpreting a play set in 1600…
 It's five o'clock on a Sunday, and I'm sitting at a bar on the Upper West Side, sipping whiskey and trying my best to focus. It's very cold outside, and the city's color has been sucked…
 It is always a rare treat to discover a fellow Hong Kong transplant in the New York theater community, and this time, the blessing came in the form of Penny Pun. Speaking with Penny tug…
 When Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron became the first all-female writing team to win Best Score at the Tony Awards, Tesori said: "You have to see it to be it." Andrea Prestinario and Royer…
 Walking into the room that held much of the cast of An Ordinary Muslim felt like walking into a family home during Sunday dinner. Despite the seriousness of the play, the atmosphere was…
 Sylvia Khoury's Against the Hillside, currently playing through February 25 at Ensemble Studio Theater, tackles the controversial nature of drone warfare by following US drone pilots an…
 Few shows feel as specific as they do inclusive, yet Mashuq Mushtaq Deen's solo show, Draw the Circle, currently playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, achieves such a feat. Draw t…
 It's Monday afternoon, around 1pm and I've completely lost my momentum. I'm twenty minutes behind and ten blocks away. The trains are predictably un-predictable and if my internal monol…
 The Sol Project was launched as an ambitious initiative to raise and empower Latina/o/x voices in the arts in order to nurture and foster true diversity. We sat down with Jacob Padró…
 Something joyous is happening at the Cherry Lane Theatre. That's the home of Kate Hamill's uproariously funny, clever, and at times deeply moving adaptation of Jane Austen's most famous…
 I am a guest at the first rehearsal of The White Dress"a new play by Roger Mason, directed and choreographed by Adin Walker, which will be presented at The American Theatre of Actors fr…
 Shadowlands tells the touching story of the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Helen Joy Davidman. The Fellowship of Performing Arts is producing the first New York revival of this ac…
 Hi, I'm Liz and I'll be offering you advice on navigating the tricky situations that can come from working in or being a fan of theater. I've been doing it out on my blog, fyeahgreatpla…
 When you think of plays that empower women, The Taming of the Shrew doesn't come to mind, but Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's new production is trying to change that. With a cast of thirt…
 Upon entering Rattlestick Theatre for my scheduled conversation, an air of freeing and loving spirit came over me as I look up to see Orion Stephanie Johnstone ready to greet me. Once i…
 Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy are trapped together in a room. That's the basic premise for Scott Carter's play, The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Char…
 On a breezy evening in Hell's Kitchen, I met up with my tall, well-spoken and charming friend Joe Breen, a NYC based playwright whose latest play, All My Love, Kate, is being presented …
 Since moving to Chicago, to say Michelle Lauto has been busy is an understatement. She's played the iconic Liza Minnelli (The Boy from Oz), the big-city-dreaming Vanessa from In the Hei…