‘Darling’ Chooses a New Adventure
How a grad student’s puppetry arts thesis, a Peter Pan adaptation, is dismantling patriarchy with Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
Category Archives: Front and Center
‘Godspeed,’ Gunslinger
Terence Anthony’s new play is a different kind of Western, following a woman who escapes slavery to become a kind of avenging outlaw.
Why ‘Ten Brave Seconds’ Seems Right on Time
A new musical about a gay teen’s coming-out journey premieres at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City.
Middle-Class Disappearers in ‘Bleeding Hearts’
At Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit, playwright Steve Yockey tells a new horror comedy about a couple caught between classes.
Getting Away With It in ‘Heist’
You’ve seen heist movies, but what about a heist play? A U.S. premiere at Arizona Theatre Company turns the challenge into an advantage.
A ‘Working Girl’ Who Just Wants to Have Fun (and Break Glass Ceilings)
Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck’s new musical at La Jolla Playhouse, based on the hit film, eyes the absurdities of the 1980s work culture—and the inequalities that are still with us.
Southern Discomfort in ‘Covenant’
Two productions of York Walker’s play, inspired by the Robert Johnson myth, bring the story home.
Where There’s ‘FIRE!!’
Quintessence Theatre Group shares the story of how some of the Harlem Renaissance’s greatest minds came together to create the first all-Black literary magazine.
How ‘Heart Sellers’ Gives Thanks for Mothers
As his popular two-hander makes the rounds of U.S. theatres in the coming season, playwright Lloyd Suh reminisces on the play’s development and continued resonance in an anti-immigrant climate.
Axes of Evil Disrupt ‘The Sit-In Experience’
A new immersive performance at Stage Aurora Theatrical Company puts audience members in the thick of a historical Jacksonville event.
