Four Decades Later, ‘Zoot Suit’ Still Fits
It’s sobering that Luis Valdez’s stirring Chicano protest musical is freshly relevant, but there’s nothing somber about its vibrant new staging.
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It’s sobering that Luis Valdez’s stirring Chicano protest musical is freshly relevant, but there’s nothing somber about its vibrant new staging.
The lineup includes works by Thomas Bradshaw, Dominique Morisseau, Sarah DeLappe, Jordan Harrison, and Young Jean Lee.
The season will include comedies, dramas, and a musical.
War may feel like an abstraction to many of us, but the theatre can give its realities flesh and blood.
Psychological trauma is the subject of most plays about service members. Does this represent most veterans’ reality, or does it further complicate their reentry?
From the Vietnam War to Iraq, the two playwrights have each written play trilogies about war’s effect on its fighters.
How veterans who leave the theatre of war are finding expression in another kind of theatre.
In ‘Queens for a Year,’ the playwright dramatized the culture of silence around military sexual assault via five generations of warrior women.
A novel-turned-play about a wife whose husband comes home from war changed will premiere at Forward Theater Company.
Rick Curry’s programs for veterans with disabilities teach trades and encourage storytelling.