Second-Act Problems: What Comes Next Is Up to Us, and Also Not
Poised between a troubled but familiar past and the uncertain promise of a transformed future, is it any wonder we’re having trouble with the next act of our lives?
Category Archives: Opinion
The Critical Revolution Will Be Tweeted
The pandemic led to innovative, alternative forms of theatre. Can theatre criticism keep up?
All the Screen’s a Stage: A Transmedia Manifesto
As theatremakers celebrate the return to in-person, in-venue performances, it’s imperative to keep open the doors offered by digital theatre and celebrate its place alongside the stage.
Once on This Island: How LaChanze Helped Me Heal After 9/11
The attacks on the World Trade Center hit close to home, and it was a Broadway cast reunion concert that pointed the way back to life.
Why Can’t Theatres Be More Like Public Parks?
A U.K. director argues that theatres can reclaim the center of civic life only if they lower barriers to entry and embrace their communitarian role.
Hope Is a Trail of Breadcrumbs
A leading maker of plays for young people thinks of good storytelling as an alert, wakeful, but necessarily uncertain journey through the unknown.
‘I Know What I’m Writing’: Emily Mann and ‘Execution of Justice’
In this excerpt from a new bio of the writer/director, she recalls how she created one of the American theatre’s seminal documentary theatre texts.
Touch the Wound, But Don’t Live There
Why we need resilience services as much as we need fight choreography.
Push Me, Pull You: How ‘Sunday in the Park’ Got Put Together
In a delightful and illuminating new memoir/oral history, playwright/director James Lapine revisits the ups and downs of his first project with Stephen Sondheim.
Where Art Matters: In Praise of the American Regional Theatre
An Irish director hails the ensemble ethic and sharp focus of U.S. resident theatres, which compare favorably to any he’s worked with around the world.
