John Kander and Nick Blaemire on Musicals Old and New
Veteran composer John Kander talks and emerging talent Nick Blaemire, both with new musicals at Arlington’s Signature Theatre this month, trade thoughts about the state of musical theatre.
Support American Theatre! A just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. Make a fully tax-deductible donation today! Join TCG to ensure you get AT's return to print in your mailbox.
Stories from the South, in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Veteran composer John Kander talks and emerging talent Nick Blaemire, both with new musicals at Arlington’s Signature Theatre this month, trade thoughts about the state of musical theatre.
Matt Lyle’s wild comedy, inspired by a mild real-life social humiliation, throws self-judgment and invidious class comparison on the grill next to the road kill.
The theatre, plagued by debt woes from its new building, has been given a financial reprieve in the form of a $5 million loan and 19 years of free rent.
Louisville’s burgeoning indie scene is attracting—and increasingly keeping—a flock of eager theatremakers.
A lap dance from a peanut-butter-covered werewolf? A hip-hop Dickens intervention? No wonder this comedy storefront attracts a young, rowdy ATL audience.
The Atlanta-area theatre will stage “The Secret Garden” in an actual garden, and its “Evita” will cast the nearby countryside as rural Argentina.
PCPA becomes the Pacific Conservatory Theatre, and Tennessee Rep becomes Nashville Rep.
After nearly 10 years traveling to Guatemala to teach women forum theatre techniques, this faith-based feminist troupe is bringing its Central American partners to the U.S.
A new play about a doctrinal controversy at one megachurch cracks open conversations about difficult emotions.
His plays—‘Appropriate,’ ‘An Octoroon,’ ‘Neighbors,’ ‘Gloria,’ ‘War’—are high-wire performances in themselves.