How Jack O’Brien Learned to Direct: Watching, Doing, and Living to Tell
In a new memoir, the longtime Old Globe leader and frequent Broadway helmer considers an eventful career and offers tips he picked up the hard way.
All Stories About Directing
Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab: Not a Eulogy But a Celebration
For 25 years, this hugely influential program welcomed directors from all over the world to compare work and share practices. Is it really over?
Les Waters: Theatre Spaces and Thin Places
In excerpts from a new book, the British-born director talks about childhood mysteries, the theatre buildings he’s worked in, and his fascination with erasure and contradictions.
Mack Brown Is Roundabout’s New Directing Fellow
The New York theatre also announced the 11 directors who will be part of their 2022-23 Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group.
Gerald Freedman, Forging Family Wherever He Went
The celebrated director of ‘Hair,’ Great Lakes Theater AD, and UNCSA dean taught his students invaluable lessons that apply equally to theatre and to life itself.
SDCF Awards Go to Loretta Greco, Anne Kauffman, Raja Feather Kelly, Susan Stroman
Stage directors and choreographers recognize their peers in 3 categories.
Offscript: The Director’s Path
In this podcast episode, recorded live at the Robert Moss Theater, directors Anne Kauffman, Rachel Chavkin, Anne Bogart, and Liesl Tommy discusses the hows and whys of directing.
Bless the Host
Directors set the table for our theatrical meals, and preparation is key.
Developing a Sense of Direction
How six directors discovered and honed their craft—and found careers along the way.
Paving the Way
Five veteran directors tell how they got where they are and what they’re passing on.
