Dr. Shakespeare, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Play On
An ambitious effort to hire contemporary playwrights to translate the Bard into modern English is about to deliver the goods.
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Classic Stage’s 2018-19 Season to Feature ‘Cradle Will Rock’
Marc Blitzstein’s folk opera will see a return engagement Off Broadway, plus the theatre will present readings of Shakespeare’s plays translated into modern English.
Carey Perloff: Left Coast, Right Time
After a quarter century at the helm of ACT, the classics-minded director/playwright is quitting while she’s ahead.
Classic Stage Announces 2017-18 Season
The lineup will feature the theatre’s first Tennessee Williams work and the first major revival of Oscar Hammerstein II’s ‘Carmen Jones.’
John Doyle Directs His Favorite Sondheim Show
His minimalist aesthetic seems to mesh well with the character-driven work of the composer/lyricist. Next: ‘Pacific Overtures.’
CSC Announces 2016–17 Season, Its First Under John Doyle
The new artistic director will helm two works in the theatre’s season.
Offscript: Tonya Pinkins’s Brechtian Alienation
This week’s guest is Tonya Pinkins, who discusses why she quit the controversial ‘Mother Courage’ at Classic Stage Company. Plus: The editors catch up on some big entrances and exits.
Is a Black Perspective Too Much to Ask of Brecht?
Rehearsal room squabbles aside, the questions raised by Tonya Pinkins as she departed CSC’s ‘Mother Courage’ deserve a closer look.
Duncan Sheik on CSC’s Disputed ‘Mother Courage’
The ‘Spring Awakening’ composer, who enjoyed working on Brecht’s thorny classic with director Brian Kulick and star Tonya Pinkins, weighs in on the show’s fortunes.
Classic Stage Company Names John Doyle Its New Artistic Director
The Scottish director will assume the role at the conclusion of the 2015–16 season.