The Week That Shook Center Theatre Group
When the L.A. theatre announced a season light on women playwrights, a protest led to change and greater transparency.
Category Archives: Feature
How to Be an Antiracist Theatremaker
Five producers gather to talk about what they do and the power they hold to make change.
How Extra Time Gave Court Theatre a Deeper Dive Into ‘Othello’
Pandemic delays allowed the Chicago theatre to rethink their both production process and the meaning of the play, with strong input from their lead actor.
How Lili Taylor Caught Wallace Shawn’s ‘Fever’
She may be alone onstage for the performance, but she contains—and reflects—multitudes.
Support for Latinidad Onstage: A Lifelong, Not a Month-Long, Job
For Hispanic Heritage Month, four Latinx/Latine play festival producers talk about their vision for a more expansive and inclusive American theatre.
Know a Theatre: Six Points Theater of St. Paul, Minn.
Formerly the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, this Twin Cities mainstay is dedicated to new work rooted in Jewish culture.
The Folger’s Karen Ann Daniels: Making the Shakespeare We Want
As she steps into a new role at D.C.’s Folger Theatre and Library, she’s focused on how a repurposed Bard can help build community.
This Month in Theatre History
From a warning against home-grown fascism to an R&H revisal, from WOW Café to slam poetry.
Jean Passanante: More Than One Life to Live
In her successful soap writing career, she used new-play development skills she honed at the O’Neill and New York Theatre Workshop, among others.
How the Shows Went On, and How They May Again
2 new documentaries look at Broadway as it was, while a third gives us a glimpse of our possible post-COVID future.
