The Final Collaborator: Why New Work Needs Audiences
As developmental spaces dwindle, the New York Stage & Film Summer Season preserves a crucial part of theatremaking: the moment when artists and audiences shape a work together.
Joseph’s Big Swings at the Guthrie
What has he learned after leading Minneapolis’s flagship theatre for the last 11 years, and what’s next? Plus: a Pittsburgh check-in with Sharon Eberson.
Talene Monahon: Meaning in Armenian
The writer of ‘Meet the Cartozians’ chats with her leading actress about the history behind the play, the complicated effects of assimilation, and Armenian pride and trauma.
This Month in Theatre History
August highlights include a ban on plays, a tour interrupted, and a fight against the end of the world.
Phamaly’s ‘504: The Musical’ Makes a Sit-In Sing
A vital yet often-overlooked disability-rights protest in San Francisco in 1977 is musicalized at Denver’s Phamaly Theatre Company.
People to Watch: Phanésia Pharel
The Haitian American playwright reflects on female empowerment and her wishes for change in the industry as her play ‘Dead Girl’s Quinceañera’ makes the rounds this fall.
What Else Is New: A ‘Dalloway’ Prequel, Helen of Troy in the Old West
A listing of new plays and musicals making their debuts in the U.S. in the coming month.
7 New Musicals to Preview at Inaugural Broadway Festival
A first-of-its-kind 3-day outdoor Broadway music festival will feature previews of new musicals along with starry programs of musical theatre favorites.
AT&T Center, Dallas Theater Center Plan Merger
The partnership would make DTC the official producer within the sprawling performing arts center, and in turn open its venues to theatre programming.
People to Watch: Bernardo Cubría
A year after the Los Angeles wildfires, the playwright reflects on community and responsibility with ‘The People of Pompeii.’
