2021’s Top Posts, Plus a Few More for Your Reading List
As we look back on a challenging year, we see a field continuing its push to create a new, better ‘normal.’
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Offscript: Ringing Out 2021 With Lily Janiak and Jesse Green
For the final podcast of the year, the editors plumb the year-end thoughts and feelings of critics from the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
A Big Table: What the New Irish Arts Center Means for New York
The company’s glittering new $60 million building, long in the works, puts the emphasis on multidisciplinary programming and Irish hospitality.
If You Live-Stream It, Will They Watch?
As ‘Clyde’s’ prepares for a Broadway-level simulcast, a smaller theatre upstate highlights some of the difficulties and benefits of this hybrid approach.
Britney, Baldwin, the Bard: The New Face of Classics at STC
Already in his short time so far at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, Simon Godwin has striven to redefine the stage canon.
First the Album, Then the Show
Without the brand name of well-known IP, Broadway musicals are increasingly finding that releasing albums early is a route to the stage, and to fans’ hearts.
Paul Williams Rediscovers the Fun in ‘Emmet Otter’
The songwriter talks about adapting his beloved Muppet musical for the stage, about never growing up, and about the things you can learn from an audience.
This Month in Theatre History
From Stephen Sondheim preparing for ‘West Side Story’ to the legacy of Margo Jones, from one of theatre’s worst fires to P.T. Barnum’s American Museum.
For Reginald L. Douglas, D.C. Is Both Local and National
The new artistic director of Mosaic Theater Company emphasizes creative collaboration and community development in his vision for the future.
What’s Opera, Director?
For theatre helmers Bartlett Sher and Mary Zimmerman, who both have shows in the new Met season, the music is the leader they follow.
