The History Play That Got Away
Oregon Shakes’s history-play commissioning project may not have funded the founding fathers hip-hop musical everyone’s talking about, but their slate so far is pretty revolutionary anyway.
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Oregon Shakes’s history-play commissioning project may not have funded the founding fathers hip-hop musical everyone’s talking about, but their slate so far is pretty revolutionary anyway.
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The native language of theatre is artifice, but as Annie Baker’s ‘John’ proves, it doesn’t always feel that way.
The American musical is in fine shape, both its brand-new and revival corps. This wasn’t always the case.
Why I’ve avidly watched the work of Cornerstone’s founding artistic director and of Oregon Shakes, both separately and together.
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The difference between arts professionals and the rest of us isn’t about money but about dedication.
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It is theatre’s blessing and curse that it shares space with all of humanity—even humans with cell phones.
Reporting for duty to the field I’ve had my eye on for decades.