The View From Denver’s New-Play Summit
Now under new leadership, the 14th iteration of this developmental festival again offered room, time, and shared energy to a crop of writers.
Opinion
How Becoming HIV+ Turned Me Into a Playwright
It took the worst news and deepest doubts of my life to lead me to my voice and my subject: exploring Black queer love.
‘True West’: Sam Shepard’s Super Smash Brothers
In a Roundabout revival of the nearly 40-year-old play, it holds up as a withering portrait of the myths and traps of American masculinity.
Why Comedy Is Eating Theatre’s Lunch
Audiences are eager to laugh at everything from pratfalls to political commentary, and these days they’re doing it everywhere but at the theatre.
Festival Roundup Part Deux: Not Our First Rodeo
It wasn’t quite the season of our discontent, but this year’s January festivals felt a bit less binge-able than usual, despite the high points.
Free to Be: A Diary From Women’s Prison
What am I learning while doing time, apart from mopping the gym? I’m getting to know people in transition.
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.
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).