Divine Comedy Festival: Joy and Despair, Head-Scratching and Mind-Blowing
This last dispatch from the 2024 gathering checks in with some Americans who’ve felt both inspired and challenged by their Polish counterparts.
Category Archives: Features
Martin Benson: Directing With Clarity, Traveling Light
The co-founder of South Coast Rep won acclaim by staging what playwrights wrote, and helping to sustain a home for their work.
Sex, Politics, Guarded Optimism: A Report From Kraków’s Divine Comedy
Theatre in Poland inevitably intersects with politics, and not only because it relies on state support.
David Schweizer: Sparkling Glee, Peerless Care
Remembering a director whose intelligence and sense of humor didn’t just guide careers but built community.
Chris Kayser Worked Hard but Savored the Grapes
The versatile Atlanta actor, who died on Dec. 3 at the age of 75, is remembered as both larger than life and down to earth.
Our Man in Kraków: Dispatches From Divine Comedy
This correspondent returned eagerly to a place where theatre still matters in a troubled world, even if it can’t quite make sense of it.
Morgan Jenness: A Consideration
The irreplaceable dramaturg and activist, who died on Nov. 12 at age 72, is remembered by one of her closest comrades in art.
The Wit and Wisdom of Morgan Jenness
Members of the dramaturg/activist’s chosen family remember her lifelong commitment to theatre, politics, and the art of friendship.
This Month in Theatre History
Gilbert & Sullivan’s only U.S. world premiere, two theatre foundings (Dunbar Theatre in Philly, St. Nicholas in Chicago), a Broadway Y2K shutdown, and more.
Language in the Driver’s Seat in ‘Racecar Racecar Racecar’
Kallan Dana’s intimate, unsettling play, a production of The Hearth redirected from the shuttered Connelly Theatre, reemerges at A.R.T./New York.
