Sundance Theatre Program, Rest in Power
The end of yet another path-breaking play development program, one with fieldwide impact and global reach, has not been properly mourned.
The end of yet another path-breaking play development program, one with fieldwide impact and global reach, has not been properly mourned.
After years of soul-searching, this summer’s LMDA conference in Philly promises to engage the whole field in a fresh, inclusive dialogue about which forms sustain us (and which don’t).
An excerpt from a new collection of micro-plays.
Amid health and climate crises, a new-works program takes Latine writers to their ancestral homes to inspire hope and healing.
A poet/playwright reflects on the pleasure and possibility of a medium where deliberate fakery can lead to a kind of freedom.
The Broadway stage manager recounts how her company conceived and staged a new concert version of the popular show in the face of COVID cancellations.
As if having a baby while working in the theatre isn’t hard enough, the pandemic has only intensified the stress—and the need for networks of support.
The work of writers like Jackie Sibblies Drury, Annie Baker, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is riveting in the theatre, but the rewards of close reading shouldn’t be ignored.
Poised between a troubled but familiar past and the uncertain promise of a transformed future, is it any wonder we’re having trouble with the next act of our lives?
The attacks on the World Trade Center hit close to home, and it was a Broadway cast reunion concert that pointed the way back to life.