Ira Aldrige’s Life and Career Remain an Inspiration for Current Actors
Adrian Lester, Charles Dutton and Ted Lange expound on the joys and difficulties of portraying the trailblazing acting icon.
Category Archives: Mid Atlantic
Stories from Delaware, Washington, DC, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
My Year of Writing Dangerously
At a solitary Gulf Coast retreat, veteran playwright Craig Lucas reconnects with the sublime.
Playwright Marcus Gardley Weaves Poetry, History Together To Create His Masterpieces
A behind-the-scenes look at a prolific playwright’s process.
Tony Award Winning Duo Marsha Norman and Jason Robert Brown Discuss ‘Bridges of Madison County’
The duo behind the new musical reveal their writing process, collaborative efforts and why an out of town preview was helpful.
Independence Is More Than a State of Mind
The LIT FUND demonstrates the importance of collective action
‘Marie Antoinette’ Gets a Double Design Treatment
How the design team for David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” tackled downsizing the play for a smaller black box space.
Romeo Castellucci Opens Up to American Audiences
Italian director Romeo Castellucci talks theatre, air conditioning and observing art.
How Split Britches Joined Lesbian Performance With the Avant-Garde
At the seminal WOW Cafe and beyond, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have inspired generations of theatremakers with their seriously playful hybrid of vaudeville, drag, and postmodern appropriation.
Quiara Alegria Hudes’s New Trilogy Inspired by Childhood in Philadelphia
Quiara Alegria Hudes discusses her new trilogy of plays, “Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue” (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), “Water By the Spoonful” (a Pulitzer winner) and “The Happiest Song Plays Last”.
Five Downtown Theatre Festivals in NYC to Pull Audiences Out of the Cold Snap
With Under the Radar, Coil, PROTOTYPE, American Realness, Other Forces, January is festival season in New York City. So snap out of it.
