This Month in Theatre History
October saw Congress vote against theatre, Frederick Douglass inveighing against minstrelsy, a ‘Shuffle Along’ sequel, a gravity-defying musical, and the passing of a genre-defining playwright.
All Stories About María Irene Fornés
Pattern Recognition, Reconstructed: The Unlikely Return of Fornés’s ‘Evelyn Brown’
A new revival at La MaMa of the playwright’s opaque verbatim play from 1980 gives a fresh window into her unique formal and thematic ambitions.
This Month in Theatre History
From Edwin Booth’s Richard III to the Federal Dance Project, from ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ to Odd Fellows Hall, this month featured some remarkable characters.
