A B-Boy at Yale
Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
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Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
Watching and helping John Guare build his plays inspired his erstwhile assistant to do the same.
The downtown playwright and theatremaker talks about her aesthetic and DIY work ethic, and how much of each she’ll bring to her new post.
Caryl Churchill is the only writer working now who says and does something genuinely new with each new play.
How one of the nation’s leading repertory theatre actors, who evoked universal admiration for his own work, returned the favor.
The problem with young adult shows on Broadway isn’t that they focus on teens—it’s which teens they focus on.
This London-based Trinidadian, who had a series of popular plays at Arena Stage in D.C., brightened every room he came into.
The company’s new 6-week conservatory program aims to provide tools for a collaborative rehearsal process.
As a former Chicago theatre person (artistic and then executive director of Free Street Theater, from 1991 to 2003), I was glad to see American Theatre devote an article to the wonderful ensemble scene in Chicago (“Stronger Together,” AT, Nov. ’19). But I found it “curious” that the writer neglected to mention perhaps Chicago’s oldest functioning theatre ensemble, Curious Theatre Branch. Curious has been devoted to new work for more than 30 years, having produced Rhinofest long before the first “Fringe” for most of that…
The comic playwright’s new play ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ is based on his parents’ WWII courtship by mail.