Escape Behind Bars
St. Louis’s Prison Performing Arts helps young inmates discover and rediscover their creative and interactive selves.
On the Scene
‘Hamilton’ Under the Weight of the Puerto Rican Flag
How could any single show carry so much of the island’s pain and triumph? By unleashing a hurricane of pride and love.
City Theatre’s Long History With the Short Play
For 23 years this Miami theatre has made short-form theatre a priority, a specialty, and something of a superpower.
Patrick Gabridge, Playwright on the Graveyard Shift
The artist-in-residence at Massachusetts’s Mount Auburn Cemetery is charged with bringing the site’s rich history to life.
Come On Up to Pillsbury House
How co-artistic directors Faye Price and Noël Raymond of the Minneapolis theatre organization infuse the arts into everyday life.
Here, There, and Everywhere: The Alliance Theatre’s Season On the Road
How Atlanta’s flagship theatre planned and staged an entire season off-campus, and what they learned about their city and their audience in the bargain.
‘Rip Van Winkle’ Awakens a Hudson Valley Community
An adaptation of the Washington Irving tale hit close to home for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Full Circle program.
A ‘Cardinal’ Grows in Queens: Cornerstone’s Teachable Moments
The community-engaged theatre troupe and institute, long based in California, recently touched down in NYC’s most diverse borough for a new adventure in art-making.
A Florida ‘Awakening’ in the Wake of Tragedy
The Stoneman Douglas school shooting and the #NeverAgain movement made a stark, stirring backdrop for a high school production of the coming-of-age musical.
St. Louis: The Jigsaw City
Theatre in Missouri’s second largest city has variety and vibrancy, but does it cohere?