Family Cuts: Inside ‘Seng’s Hair Salon’
One of three plays in InterAct Theatre Company’s Philly Cycle, ‘Seng’s Hair Salon’ blends salon life, unaddressed trauma, and inspiration from Philly’s Southeast Asian communities.
All Stories About InterAct Theatre Company
‘The Last Yiddish Speaker’: Who They’ll Come for First
Deborah Zoe Laufer’s new play, now kicking off its rolling world premiere at Philadelphia’s InterAct Theatre, imagines an eerily plausible fascist future.
Lortel Special Awards, artEquity BIPOC Leadership Circle, InterAct’s Philly Cycle
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
‘The Chinese Lady’ and the Long Road Home
How Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Chinese Lady’ made it through 2 years of pandemic, protest, and anti-Asian hate to emerge as the nation’s most-produced and possibly most essential play.
Letters to the Editor: Time Stopper, Funding Caution
A stage manager’s stopwatch keeps a COVID vigil, and a reader expresses skepticism about arts funding as a panacea.
Florida Studio Theatre Cancels Summer Season, Launches Playwrights Project
The company has also postponed its annual Sarasota Improv Festival to next year.
InterAct Announces 2019-20 Season
The lineup features a range of contemporary works, including a Thomas Gibbons world premiere.
Henry Ong (1949-2018)
A quiet fixture of L.A.’s theatre scene, Ong wrote a wide variety of plays and showed up to support even more.
Featured Contributors, Sept. 18
An account of the toll of #MeToo reporting, and a report on new-play cross-pollination.
Away Games for New Plays
NNPN goes beyond the rolling world premiere model to cross-pollinate new work across 3 cities.
