Maps and Legends: 4 Playwrights, 4 Asian Enclaves in L.A.
For its ambitious ‘Neighborhood Project,’ Artists at Play has commissioned writers to create work inspired by various Southland communities.
Category Archives: Features
What Educator James Ijames is Bringing to Columbia
This month: a Pulitzer-winning playwright readies for his next challenge, plus educators offer tips as they head back to school.
The House That George Built
George C. White, founder of the influential Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, who died on Aug. 6 at the age of 89, played a central role in the last 6 decades of American playwriting.
Bringing It ‘Home’
With a play about homelessness at various non-theatrical locations, Out of Hand Theater created a useful fiction for real-life Atlantans.
Robert Wilson’s Vision: Both Singular and Capacious
A colleague recalls how the director’s beautiful, internally cohesive dreamscapes expanded her concept of what theatre can do.
Axes of Evil Disrupt ‘The Sit-In Experience’
A new immersive performance at Stage Aurora Theatrical Company puts audience members in the thick of a historical Jacksonville event.
Chasing the Cool at Williamstown Theatre Festival
This year’s gathering in the Berkshires took big swings with mixed results, but its greatest successes may have been in the buzz and chatter it created among festivalgoers.
Islands of Disorder
Lessons from the Global South on fugitivity and world-making in the face of empire.
Foreign Aid Cuts Hit Close to Home for This NYC Theatre
Bond Street Theatre, which takes theatre into refugee camps and prisons overseas, has had programs cancelled—but they’re regrouping, fundraising, and even bringing some of their work home.
Ozzie Rodriguez, La MaMa’s Archivist, Lived the History He Curated
A key figure in New York’s experimental scene in his own right, he devoted himself with passion and rigor to preserving La MaMa’s path-breaking heritage for succeeding generations.
