The Why; Also Lots of What and How and Who
Reporting for duty to the field I’ve had my eye on for decades.
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Reporting for duty to the field I’ve had my eye on for decades.
This small one-stage theatre exclusively produces works by British playwrights, with an emphasis on farce and a specialty in panto.
How did Andrew Russell bring this venerable resident theatre back from the brink of debt and dysfunction? Slowly, carefully—and locally.
What can theatre possibly mean to migrant workers and refugees in one of the world’s most violent regions? Ask ‘Antigone.’
Andrew Schneider’s synesthetic masterwork ‘YOUARENOWHERE’ kicks off another summer of barrier-breaking performance at the Berkshires fest.
He’s happily played underdogs and second bananas, but in a new musical from Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, the ‘Pitch Perfect’ star at last has a role with range—and not just vocally speaking.
The American theatre as we know it didn’t just evolve organically, inevitably; it was conjured by visionaries who dreamt of a national theatre outside New York, then built it.
Playwrights at Erik Ehn’s annual Texas retreat don’t speak for 10 days. New writing rushes into the void, along with a sense of community.
How does HFF, now in its sixth year, stack up to other fringe fests? Sources say: comparable to NYC, but no match for Perth.
Robert Askins, writer of ‘Hand to God,’ talks with David Javerbaum, author of ‘An Act of God,’ about religion, theatre, and the music of comedy.