Vengeance, Plague, Death, Confusion: Stacy Keach, Ed Gero Join Zoom ‘Lear’ Reading
An online benefit on Shakespeare’s birthday will reunite some storied professional casts with local Pennsylvania actors.
Stories by Stuart Miller
The Business of ‘Carol’
More than a mere box-office cash cow, Dickens’s classic is a community builder, a gateway drug, and a holiday tradition.
The Long, Strange Flight of ‘Mockingbird’
The new Broadway version, and its legal battles, are just the latest chapter in a complicated 50-year history of the popular novel’s theatrical life.
7 Educators on Training for the Future
When teaching arts administration, data and tech are important tools to have, but the human connection remains paramount.
An RBG Appearance Isn’t a Talkback, It’s an Event
At a matinee of ‘The Originalist,’ John Strand’s play about Justice Scalia, his old frenemy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, showed up to talk about the state of the Supreme Court and the nation.
They Speak Lighting
How master designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer help us see what their directors want to show us.
The Donor Class Struggle
As funding for the arts shifts inexorably from corporations to individuals, can theatres maintain their edge?
The Plays Are the Thing at the National Black Theatre Festival
Under Jackie Alexander’s leadership, North Carolina Black Rep’s biennial gathering aims to connect playwrights and producers.
Rebecca Hall’s ‘Animal’ Rage
In Claire Lizzimore’s new play at Atlantic, Hall has just the sort of workout she looks for: playing a woman whose life is coming apart.
Mfoniso Udofia’s Unfolding Immigrant Family Epic
The Nigerian-American playwrights puts ‘Sojourners’ and ‘Her Portmanteau’ into rep and talks about the other 7 in the cycle.