A Neon Nostalgia Kaboom for the End of the World
In its ’80s IP retro rush, is Broadway’s 2025-26 season simply offering brand-name escapism—or finding a reflection of, and a response to, our current age of anxiety?
Category Archives: Opinion
TYA, or Theatre for Audiences Who Happen to Be Young?
New Victory Theater’s artistic director makes the case for breaking down borders, both between ‘adult’ and youth theatre and between U.S. and global work.
Monologues and Mayday in Minneapolis
In defiance of early 2026’s harrowing ICE/CBP occupation, Mixed Blood Theatre commissioned theatre artists to process and document the moment.
21 Practical Tips for New Artistic Directors
Leadership advice from the producing artistic director of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
State of Play
Why the theatre industry’s new-play push hasn’t improved the playwrights’ lot.
Mama’s Turn: My Mother, Me, and 2 Musical Bookends
How ‘The Music Man’ and ‘Gypsy’ framed the fatherless, aspirational life we shared.
The Not-So-Brief, Wondrous Adaptation Process of ‘Oscar Wao’
How did a playwright bring the Pulitzer-winning, generation-defining novel to the stage? By finding himself in the story.
‘Teeth,’ In-Your-Face and With Extra Bite
The maker of the original film reflects on how his gory fable about vagina dentata became a savagely witty stage musical by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson.
Theatre in a Time of Genocide: Palestinian Imagination Under Fire
2 playwrights talk to theatremakers in the West Bank and Gaza, who are continuing their resistance to occupation with their art and their witness.
Facial Recognition, With a Difference: How ‘Wonder’ Sees the Invisible
The author of a new musical based on a book about facial difference writes about how the show took its unique shape and gathered its like-minded team.
