Samuel D. Hunter on Creating a Modern ‘Our Town’
The MacArthur genius grantee talks about his new play ‘Pocatello’ at Playwrights Horizons, and why the Olive Garden makes a great metaphor for family and community.
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The MacArthur genius grantee talks about his new play ‘Pocatello’ at Playwrights Horizons, and why the Olive Garden makes a great metaphor for family and community.
Building on the popularity of a certain icy musical film phenom, the team at this Georgia theatre went back to the source to create an otherworldly ‘Snow Queen.’
In dramatizing questions about the man whose beating by police incited riots, solo artist Roger Guenveur Smith finds story that’s deeply American—and quintessentially L.A.
Three hard-drinking Arizona retirees do not go gently into that silent night in Denny Guge’s popular perennial.
Death on a stick: The Old Trout Puppet Workshop brings its irreverent but strangely moving “Famous Puppet Death Scenes” to Woolly Mammoth.
Paul Mesner Puppets cooks up one show each for Jewish, Christian and secular holiday observances.
In ‘Feast of My Heart’ at Salvage Vanguard, eight playwrights and eight directors approach the theme of compassion. But don’t call it a holiday show.
The Canadian playwright of “The Best Brothers” didn’t know he had a play in him about an annoying but ultimately lovable new best friend.
The Hypocrites’ plucky, stripped-down takes on the G&S canon have become something of a sensation, and now they’re running them in a three-ring rep.
Elements Theatre Company, a stage troupe within a Benedictine Christian community, forgoes religious pageantry for a mix of classics and new plays.