Category Archives: Nationwide

Stories with a national scope.

The Prime of Robert Brustein

Critic and company man, he has built an audience for adventurous work and an institute to train for it.

With some tough battles behind him in Providence, Adrian Hall is back on the theatrical frontlines in Dallas.

An emotional farewell is staged for activist Free Southern Theatre.

The Goodman’s second-in-command looks to the future.

We may not have realized we were building long-lasting institutions to make theatre. But now that we have them, what should we do with them?

Jack Viertel goes from daily critic to in-house dramaturg at L.A.’s flagship theatre.

A new play from Beth Henley, second stages proliferate, theme seasons, and more.

On the National Council for the Arts, he’ll speak for the ‘tough, ephemeral’ art of theatre.

And other noteworthy gatherings and festivals.

The ‘new vaudevillians’ fuel the theatre with dazzling physical skill and a spirit of comic anarchy.