Robert Hooks: Always About the Ensemble
The pioneering co-founder of Negro Ensemble Company looks back on an acting and producing career that was never just about himself.
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Jason Alexander Can’t ‘Forget’ the Theatre
Now directing the L.A. premiere of Steven Levenson’s Jewish American family drama ‘If I Forget,’ Alexander holds forth about identity, history, and what he learned from Jerome Robbins.
Alliance’s Susan V. Booth Will Be Next Artistic Director of Goodman Theatre
She succeeds Robert Falls at the company where she once worked as director of new-play development, after 21 years leading Atlanta’s biggest nonprofit theatre.
Dream While You Read: A Map for Venturing Beyond Theatrical Realism
Two theatremakers explore both the need for and the possibility of a truly diverse aesthetics of the theatre.
Robert Barry Fleming’s Sense of Scale
Actors Theatre of Louisville’s artistic director sets the record straight about the status of the Humana Festival and the company’s ongoing efforts to match ambition with capacity.
Digging Deep With Native Theatre Icon Muriel Miguel
Over nearly 5 decades, the co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater has harnessed great if under-acknowledged power, and has felt an accordingly great sense of responsibility.
Meeting the Moment With a Pulitzer Winner and 2 Finalists
James Ijames, Kristina Wong, and Sylvia Khoury talk about what inspired their award-worthy plays and how they shaped them.
Adam Odsess-Rubin’s National Queer Theater, Still Dreaming Forward
The NYC-based company will next host Criminal Queerness Festival, welcoming theatremakers from nations where homosexuality is outlawed at a time when U.S. also faces renewed threats from the homophobic right.
‘A Strange Loop’ Takes a Victory Lap That Was Years in the Making
When he put ‘Broadway’ in a song lyric, Michael R. Jackson was unwittingly naming the destination, and the destiny, for his unapologetically Black and queer musical, which won the Best Musical Tony last night.
World Building With Madhuri Shekar
From ‘In Love and Warcraft’ to ‘Queen,’ she’s one of the theatre’s busiest and most versatile playwrights, though her success has come with its share of pain and disillusionment.
