Feasting in the Festival Garden
New York’s annual experimental theatre sampler boasts plenty of chills and frills, but the real attraction is carefully crafted mayhem.
Opinion
What One Show Can Carry: William Kentridge’s ‘The Head and the Load’
To honor the million-plus Black Africans who died in World War I, the South African artist uses opera, theatre, dance, video, and a dose of Dada.
Some Enchanted Music of the Night
A bio sums up Rodgers & Hammerstein’s achievement, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s memoir is surprisingly lively.
All ‘The Season’ in a Day: Reading Goldman to Say Goodbye
You can’t just dip into the best, most compulsively readable book ever written about the art and sweat of making theatre (though you may skip a few parts).
Everything’s Different, Nothing’s Changed: ‘Company’ With a Female Bobbie
By flipping a few genders, Marianne Elliott’s new London revival turns Sondheim and Furth’s classic into a meditation on modern relationships.
The Showman and the Raconteur
New memoirs by British directors Nicholas Hytner and Dominic Dromgoole run the gamut, and the Globe.
‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ and the Female Storyteller
In her boundary-breaking, civically engaged play, Heidi Schreck shows that a woman telling her story is a political, and powerful, act
High Tide of Heartbreak
Has theatre wounded me as much as or more than it’s healed me?
What Equity Is Doing to Prevent Harassment, and How You Can Help
It’s time to answer some common questions about the union’s role and responsibility in the age of #MeToo.
‘Oklahoma!,’ Still Okay?
Two new revivals—one ebulliently LGBTQ, another brooding and immersive—make this musical warhorse run in new directions.