John Pintard: Forgotten Founding Father
It's hard to think of anyone so important to American history yet as obscure as John Pintard (1759-1844). I only know about him because he founded New York's oldest museum and library, the N…
It's hard to think of anyone so important to American history yet as obscure as John Pintard (1759-1844). I only know about him because he founded New York's oldest museum and library, the N…
Williamstown Theatre Festival gives out the award on behalf of the Anna L. Weissberger Foundation.
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonDavid Owen Norris and his son Barney reflect on the slipperiness of history in a show that elegantly defies categorisation Ticketing websites divide shows fo…
Playbill was first published in 1885, but my mother's collection goes back to her own young adult life in the 1950s. Playbill magazines have a lot of ...
Black Rep presents "Behind the Sheet," inspired by the true story of the "father of modern gynecology," set against the backdrop of slavery.
In this Artist Exploration, we welcome our first MTCA Alum on the pod! Ashley and Charlie discuss the double-edge sword of her impulsivity, going to school abroad, what it is to "be seen" on…
The autobiographical play makes its US debut.
A fresh father-son drama by travis tate reopens Victory Gardens Theater at last.
Old Vic theatre, LondonThe powerhouse duo's effortless chemistry and emotional realism brings Caryl Churchill's cloning tragedy blazing into new life 'They've taken your cells," says a fathe…
Shaped by memory and imagination, the autobiographical play by the award-winning writer and performer premieres next week at Mosaic
Following Jonathan's death in 1996, Larson served as steward to his son's legacy, creating the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation and sharing Peasant's Feasts with Rent casts.
Allan, along with his late wife Nanette, and daughter Julie, created the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation following the playwright's death in 1996. From 1997 to 2008, the fou…
Allan Larson, father of Jonathan Larson and a dedicated caretaker of the Rent playwright's legacy, has died. His death was announced last night on Twitter by Lin-Manuel Miranda, director of …
Family, immigration and the American dream.
Kait Kerrigan Unravels Intimacy in Its Many Forms by Jennifer Ann Charron "Father/Daughter" drills down into the ways that intimate relationships form and change over time. Playwright Kait K…
Playwright Kait Kerrigan elongates what could have been a poetic, fragmentary play into a full-blown relationship postmortem.
Today we sing the praises of Eddie Lang (Salvatore Massaro, 1902-1933), known to some as "the Father of Jazz Guitar". Lang came from a musical family " his father made and sold string instru…
Stylishly staged, though at times incongruent, Paata Tsikurishvili's largely wordless production fuses "The Fall of the House of Usher" with "The Raven."
The comedian and her dad recreate a childhood photo and talk about early days in India, agoraphobia and swapping banking for comedy Born in New Delhi in 1969, Sindhu Vee spent her childhood…
Celebrate #NationalComingOutDay with this clip of singer-songwriter and activist Ryan Cassata performing his original song "Daughter," inspired by his experience coming out to his father as …
Aya Ogawa's gentle, forthright reckoning of a play is a belated processing of the loss of a parent by a daughter who now has children of her own.
"The Nosebleed," Aya Ogawa's sly, strange and ultimately rewarding autobiographical play that's at the Japan Society through October 10, focuses on Ogawa's long-dead father and their failed …
All hail, Bill Monroe (1911-1996), Father of Bluegrass Music. If you're like me, when you hear that bluegrass was cooked up in the 1940s, you'll, be like "Wha-? Huh? Isn't that way too recen…
After Christopher Hampton saw Zeller's dementia drama on stage in Paris, neither language, finance nor another film adaptation could thwart their collaboration on the screenplay I first met …
Most critics don't enjoy being criticized. But sometimes an angry email isn't so much an artistic quarrel as an appeal to something more human.