This Month in Theatre History
From Brecht’s birth to Broadway Cares.
Category Archives: Theatre History
Go West, Young Director: Carey Perloff’s First Year at A.C.T., Part 1
When San Francisco’s venerable but ailing flagship theatre hired a 32-year-old neophyte to lead it, they didn’t know what they were in for. Neither did she.
This Month in Theatre History (January 2013)
From ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to the Negro Ensemble Company, another eventful month on the stage.
This Month in Theatre History
The founding of the Old Globe and Cape Fear Regional Theatre, and other noteworthy December events.
This Month in Theatre History
A Gilbert & Sullivan premiere, direction by theatre pioneeer Nina Vance, and new leadership at Philly’s Walnut Street Theatre.
This Month in Theatre History
George Frederick Cooke, the Curran Theatre, City Center Acting Company, and more.
Front & Center
New LaBute, the tulip crash, growing pains, and more.
This Month in Theatre History
Successes for Steppenwolf, Swine Palace, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Sutton Foster.
The Tamiment Connection
How vacations in the Poconos shaped the American musical.
Armageddon in Boston
An artistic director recalls how an iconoclastic theatre took root in recalcitrant soil.
