Backstage at ‘The Ferryman’
Between the push-ups, mud dances, cooing babies, jars of goose fat, and actual geese, what’s not onstage at the Jacobs can be as fascinating as what’s onstage.
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Dr. Shakespeare, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Play On
An ambitious effort to hire contemporary playwrights to translate the Bard into modern English is about to deliver the goods.
The 2019 Obie Awards: Thanks, Mom and Dad
In a big night for New York Theatre Workshop, ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ and ‘Hurricane Diane’ were among top winners.
Aria Winning: What Audiences Want From Opera
How Opera Theatre of St. Louis used a Wallace Foundation Grant to test audience-building strategies.
Big Ups for Jordan Downs: Cornerstone Memorializes a Watts Housing Project
In ‘A Jordan Downs Illumination,’ the company returns to South L.A. to find a community changed and still changing.
Know a Theatre: Prime Stage of Pittsburgh
This 23-year-old theatre company brings classroom curricula and literature to life onstage.
Qui Nguyen Is Telling the Story of Asian America
How ‘Vietgone’ and ‘Poor Yella Rednecks’ subverts the Asian-as-foreigner trope to tell a distinctly American story.
Sean Daniels: Phoenix Rising
As he starts a job leading the theatre that changed his life, he wants to return the favor and make some changes there.
This Month in Theatre History
From landmark productions of O’Neill, Charles Gordone, Wole Soyinka, and Deborah Rogin to the opening of Michigan’s Farmers Alley Theatre, May has been an eventful month.
May/June 2019 Onstage
From a funeral home to a London train station, from musical love stories to plays about parenthood, check out what is onstage near you this summer.