AT Education Monthly: Childhood Creativity, The Prep, Spring Productions, and More
Checking in with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Prep, theatre programs in California, and the educators among our readership.
Checking in with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Prep, theatre programs in California, and the educators among our readership.
The first production to use electric lighting, a tragic theatre fire, a Broadway landmark, an Asian American icon, and a James Baldwin musical adaptation.
November recalls the play Lincoln first saw Booth in, Kern’s Princess Theatre musicals, a Puerto Rican literary godfather, a gospel Oedipus musical, and a century-defining epic.
A forgotten chapter of mid-20th-century theatre history is about to be restored, as ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ is restaged in Seattle and Brooklyn.
Lorraine Hansberry’s long-awaited sophomore effort was greeted coolly, even confusedly, in 1964, but ambivalence—about art, activism, and their fraught intersection—has always been in the play’s DNA.
For her first stage role in a while, the ‘Mrs. Maisel’ actor is ready to embrace the role of another imperfect but lovable woman performer in a rocky marriage.
Binder will take the reins in December, when longtime executive producer Joseph V. Melillo steps down.
Melillo’s departure is part of a series of planned leadership transitions.
The designer and restorer of some of his city’s most iconic theatre spaces was something of a New York icon himself.
The new book ‘Drop Dead’ puts a debate we’re still having—between art for art’s sake and art for the common good—into stark relief.