BIPOC Critics Lab Goes Bicoastal With Old Globe, Public Theater
Applications are now open for the first bicoastal 2026-27 BIPOC Critics Lab cohort, as the 2025-26 cohort completes their training.
Applications are now open for the first bicoastal 2026-27 BIPOC Critics Lab cohort, as the 2025-26 cohort completes their training.
On this jam-packed episode, we talk to the star and director of ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Old Globe, the writer and co-director of a new take on ‘Pal Joey’ at Arena Stage, and the writer of a key story in our new training issue.
Director Barry Edelstein may have squeezed 3 Shakespeare history plays into 2 parts for this program, but nothing about this canon-completing repertory extravaganza is small-scale.
If we can’t have theatre until we can gather again safely, what are U.S. theatres and artists going to do in the meantime, and after?
Formerly incarcerated individuals and corrections officials make a strong case.
Offerings include plays helmed by Darko Tresnjak, Rebecca Taichman and Scott Ellis.
Check out what’s happened and is happening in theatre’s across the country this month.
Four tomes from the Shakespearean assembly line plumb the mind behind the man.