Why We’re Back in Print
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Category Archives: Editor’s Note
American Theatre’s Return to Print
Why, after 3 years of screen time only, we’re coming back IRL.
White Light, White Heat: ‘Little Foxes’ and ‘Appropriate’ in Rep
South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.
Race, Mystery, RBG, Opera: I’ve Got a Little List
From a Conan Doyle-inspired inquiry to an Emmett Till trilogy, from a Baroque opera to an Alaskan Tlingit journey, here are some shows I’d put on my hypothetical theatre calendar.
‘All of Me’: A Rom-Com That Represents, and Not Just Onstage
A new play at Barrington Stage Company, about a class-riven romance among 2 wheelchair and text-to-speech users, also has plenty of disabled talent backstage.
‘Clyde’s’ Is Most-Produced Play, and Lynn Nottage Most-Produced Playwright, of 2022-23 Season
A mix of familiar and new titles, of challenge and comfort, characterizes this year’s lists, the first this magazine has done since 2019.
An America of Color and Complication in ‘The Great Jheri Curl Debate’ and ‘Mushroom’
New plays at East West Players and People’s Light illuminate the collisions, and occasional solidarity, among people of color in a white-dominated culture.
Gimme Some Truth, or Make ’Em Laugh?
From goofy musicals to meaty and instructive dramas, 4 shows stand in for the disparate ambitions and uses of theatre.
Why Keep Doing Shakespeare? Maybe That’s the Wrong Question
From the Public Works ‘As You Like It’ to upstart crow’s ‘King John’ at Oregon Shakes to ‘Mother Lear’ at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Bard remains powerful currency; it’s how it’s spent that matters.
What We Lost and Learned
The last 2 years forced us to face fundamental uncertainty and loss, and that’s a gift that will keep on giving.
