Women Are the Pillars of ‘In the Heights’
The new movie musical can be experienced as a virtual beauty shop, where a multigenerational matriarchy keeps the faith and carries the stories.
Category Archives: Media
BroadwayHD Partners With Detroit Arts Groups for Obsidian Festival
The streaming service will bring Ghostlight Productions and Nicely Theatre Group’s inaugural Obsidian Festival to viewers at no cost.
‘We Broke Up’: Heartbreak in a Different Medium
Jeff Rosenberg and Laura Jacqmin’s new project answers the question: Why break up with theatre when you recreate some of its conditions on a film set?
Four Podcasts That Make a Play for Your Ears
Staging original works as audio dramas isn’t just a pandemic workaround; it’s also back-to-the-future turn to a resonant form.
‘AntigoneNOW’: Mourning and Connection Across 4 Time Zones
How the pandemic-adjusted film resonated with, and deepened the meaning of, Sophocles’s iconic tragedy.
If a Theatre Company Does It, Is It Theatre?
Beyond Zoom readings, companies are finding new forms and collaborators, and reaching audiences far beyond any they could serve in person.
In ‘Rich Kids’: World History, One Instagram Feed at a Time
Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Housley’s new multi-screen theatre/film offering refracts the human race’s struggles through a pair of joy-riding Iranian teens.
‘Ma Rainey’: It’s Better With a Band
Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts talk about the new film of August Wilson’s breakthrough play.
‘A Country That Tells Me I Ain’t Really She’
An excerpt from ‘For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss A Mother Fucker Out When Snatching An Edge Ain’t Enough: A Choreo Poem.’
VR: A Space to Create (and Escape) During the Pandemic
From cockroaches to Greek myths, virtual theatre productions are offering theatremakers and audiences a way to connect.
