The Business of ‘Carol’
More than a mere box-office cash cow, Dickens’s classic is a community builder, a gateway drug, and a holiday tradition.
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Crucial Connections: Theatre Facts 2018
The latest edition of TCG’s annual industry report finds theatres focusing on relationships.
TCG Fall Forum: A Deep Dive Into a New Playbook
Theatre leaders and practitioners gathered in New York earlier this month to reexamine the field’s business model and reimagine its future.
Know a Theatre: The Cherry Arts of Ithaca, N.Y.
A new space in upstate New York puts its focus on English-language premieres of plays from around the world, as well as commissions of locally themed work.
Lifetime Achievements
What can we learn from those who came before us? Things we will one day pass on.
André De Shields, Theatre God
The Broadway veteran, still kicking in ‘Hadestown,’ has blazed a path so that others may follow.
Human Trafficking at Human Scale in ‘Live Bodies for Sale’
In Ohio-based writer Christopher Johnston’s new play, a disgraceful global trade hits close to home.
This Month in Theatre History
From the birth of William Wells Brown and Ellen Stewart to the beginnings of Memphis’s Playhouse on the Square and McNally’s ‘Love! Valour! Compassion!,’ December was a noteworthy month.
Why Is Susan Lieu Self-Funding a 10-City Tour?
In telling the story of her mother, who died under a careless plastic surgeon’s knife, she hopes to illuminate both grief and injustice.
Godfrey L. Simmons Jr.: Vision and Mission
The co-founding leader of Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble prepares to take the helm of the similarly community-minded HartBeat Ensemble in Connecticut.