Eliza Bent’s ‘Toilet Fire’: Oh, the Places You’ll Go
Part church service, part confessional, part standup routine, the playwright/performer’s new show mines intestinal distress for laughs and discomfort.
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To Armenia With Love and Loss
Writing a play about ancestors consumed by an atrocity became an unexpected passport to a homecoming.
Theatre Artists With Disabilities Are Ready, Willing, and, Yes, Able
Obviously theatres should give priority to disabled actors in roles defined as disabled. The next step: to consider them for all roles.
Adam Immerwahr Is Theater J’s New Artistic Director
The former associate A.D. from New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre succeeds an embattled leader at D.C.’s flagship Jewish theatre.
Not Just the Wild, Crazy Queer Stuff at Abrons’s Just Like a Woman Festival
British and American artists working at the outer boundaries of gender, race, and live art will gather for a weekend of performances, talks, and an intergenerational, intersectional feminist check-in.
Eric Ting on the Move: A New-Play Maven Takes the Helm of a Classical Powerhouse
California Shakespeare Theatre’s new artistic director has a passion for engaging audiences around new work. What will he do with an outdoor summer theatre?
All the World’s a Screen, and All the Men and Women Digital Players
Going beyond just projecting videos, new hybrid works like ‘Helen Lawrence’ and ‘The Return’ are live events mediated by digital technology.
Scripture Is Changeable, But Shakespeare? Heaven Forfend
Oregon Shakespeare Fest’s new translation project pits purity against clarity, 400 years of reverence against a few hours’ traffic of the stage.
Table of Contents for December 2013
FEATURES The Necessity of Anarchy An actor toils and performs on Bread and Puppet Theater’s Vermont farm on the eve of the company’s 50th anniversary By David Dudley The Trayvon Factor Playwrights and theatres are revisiting issues of race on stage in the wake of the Martin-Zimmerman verdict By Janice C. Simpson PLAYSCRIPT The complete text of Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive (not available online), about hope and the possibility of redemption. Plus, a conversation between the playwright and John Patrick Shanley. DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Note Letters From the Executive…
This Month in Theatre History
From the birth of the Stage Yankee to the debut of Teatro Luna, October has been a month of firsts and the occasional health scare.
