Simon Russell Beale: Power Plays
The ‘Lehman Trilogy’ star talks about not judging his characters, the right age to play Lear, and what he’s learned from playing royals.
Interviews
Tony Hale Doesn’t Mind Typecasting
The ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Veep’ actor lives in the moment for Will Eno’s ‘Wakey, Wakey’ at ACT in San Francisco.
Charles Fuller: Write Without Fear or You’re Wasting Time
Though his 1982 hit ‘A Soldier’s Play’ is now on Broadway, its writer’s only real ambition has been to tell the truth about people he’d never seen onstage.
What Is the Question?
Watching and helping John Guare build his plays inspired his erstwhile assistant to do the same.
Ken Ludwig’s Love Letter to His Pen-Pal Parents
The comic playwright’s new play ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ is based on his parents’ WWII courtship by mail.
Meghan Pressman: In With the New
The first woman to manage the $55 million Center Theatre Group offers tips on how to raise money for innovation.
Fefu’s Friends, Old and New
Artists behind the 1977 premiere of María Irene Fornés’s groundbreaking play compare notes with artists from a new revival.
In ‘For Colored Girls….’, Adrienne C. Moore Has Come Full Circle
The ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actress, who once used a Ntozake Shange monologue as her go-to audition piece, is now starring in the Public Theater revival.
André De Shields, Theatre God
The Broadway veteran, still kicking in ‘Hadestown,’ has blazed a path so that others may follow.
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.