Contemporary Plays, Teaching From the Page as Well as the Stage
The work of writers like Jackie Sibblies Drury, Annie Baker, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is riveting in the theatre, but the rewards of close reading shouldn’t be ignored.
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The work of writers like Jackie Sibblies Drury, Annie Baker, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is riveting in the theatre, but the rewards of close reading shouldn’t be ignored.
The proliferation of plays by Black creators on the Great White Way is cause for celebration, even as it raises some familiar questions about risk and representation.
How we can make the most of the possibilities of liveness, technology, and human innovation.
We won’t achieve equity for marginalized voices by pitting themselves against each other, as Theresa Rebeck’s recent column seemed to suggest.
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?
The pandemic led to innovative, alternative forms of theatre. Can theatre criticism keep up?
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.
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.
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.
A leading maker of plays for young people thinks of good storytelling as an alert, wakeful, but necessarily uncertain journey through the unknown.