What Can Theatre Do? A Post-Election Colloquy, Part 2
Playwrights and artistic directors share more fears, hopes, challenges, plans, and self-examination in response to the election of Donald Trump.
Playwrights and artistic directors share more fears, hopes, challenges, plans, and self-examination in response to the election of Donald Trump.
Expanded empathy and sharper edges, new voices and new audiences, are on the agenda for the nation’s playwrights and artistic directors.
Emily Mann, Bill Pullman, Will Eno, and Gregory Boyd recall a playwright they respected, occasionally feared, and deeply loved.
For tips on what’s new and noteworthy on U.S. stages this season, who better to ask than literary managers and dramaturgs?
The dynamo who led Arena Stage and NYU Tisch’s acting program was acutely interested in human beings, and what theatre could reveal about them.
A range of voices considers the impact and the lasting legacy—and a few lacunae—of August Wilson’s seminal speech.
Readers wrote in to quibble with or praise Johnna Adams’s ‘Gidion’s Knot’ and immersive theatre.
Readers wrote in to applaud accessibility in the theatre and the work of Cynthia Cohen.
Readers respond to our stories about Actors Equity Association, ensemble theatre, and Adrian Hall’s adaptation of ‘All The King’s Men.’
Readers both reinforce and challenge our article, “The Artist as Entrepreneur,” and more.