Justin Huertas, Theatrical Superhero
The disarming myth-making musical ‘Lizard Boy,’ about to make its NYC debut, is just one of the trails being blazed by this Seattle-based auteur.
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The disarming myth-making musical ‘Lizard Boy,’ about to make its NYC debut, is just one of the trails being blazed by this Seattle-based auteur.
A Washington state native who advanced from intern to Seattle Rep’s leader over 2 decades, he will lead a prestigious Chicago theatre almost half the size of the Rep.
Composer Mary Rodgers’s unsparing new memoir, equal parts hilarious and harrowing, tells of an eventful life in which musical theatre wasn’t the only source of drama.
Though he ran a magazine based in New York City, he tirelessly—and uniquely—spread the love around the entire national theatre scene.
A Seattle-based production gives participants a stark look at the jarring, often dehumanizing reality inside U.S. immigration courts.
The Texas-born, Oregon-based playwright imagines a Steinbeck sequel with timely resonance.
In a Roundabout revival of the nearly 40-year-old play, it holds up as a withering portrait of the myths and traps of American masculinity.
She brings activism and passion to her multihyphenate theatre career.
So much American theatre, from O’Neill to Udofia, has been inspired by the stories of playwrights’ immigrant parents.
What gives this 19th-century Norwegian’s plays their lasting power? ‘Power’ is the operative word.