The Children of ‘Angels’
A generation of playwrights reflects on a play that still sets the bar high for their work.
Stories by Isaac Butler
This Is a Journey Into Sound: Simon McBurney on ‘The Encounter’
How the Complicite auteur follows trains of thought to the stage, then gets whole audiences on board.
Breaking ‘Ground’: How the Speech Came to Be and What It Set in Motion
In igniting fierce debates about casting, funding, and racial equity, August Wilson’s 1996 keynote anticipated many of the arguments we’re still having.
The Personal Versus the Political in 2 Israeli Plays
Both Motti Lerner’s ‘After the War’ and David Grossman’s ‘Falling Out of Time’ engage with loss, but in wildly different ways.
Fornés and Her Friends
A legion of advocates, and an upcoming festival, aim to bolster the legacy of the influential playwright and teacher.
Adam Immerwahr Is Theater J’s New Artistic Director
The former associate A.D. from New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre succeeds an embattled leader at D.C.’s flagship Jewish theatre.
Turnovers at the Top: Change the Twin Cities Can Believe In?
Leadership transitions at Mu Performing Arts, Penumbra Theatre, and the Guthrie Theater raise questions as well as expectations for the future.
David Adjmi’s ‘Three’s Company’ Parody ‘3C’ Cleared for Future Stagings
When the sitcom’s rights holders came and knocked on his door, the playwright took legal action. Now a New York district court judge has ruled in his favor.
The Great American Living-Room Play Gets a Remodel
In seeming to strike at the foundations of the realist family play, playwrights like Will Eno, Young Jean Lee and Taylor Mac may actually be proving the durability of its four walls.
The Facts on the Ground at Theater J
The backstage drama between D.C.’s influential Jewish theatre and its former artistic director Ari Roth has been as riveting, and as disputed, as anything on its stage.