For Better or Worse, We Still Live in Joe Papp’s World
The Public Theater founder’s life and legacy, traced in a documentary on PBS, may be best understood, and built upon, as part of the U.S. regional theatre movement.
All Stories About New York Shakespeare Festival
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.
Galt MacDermot, a Mystery Except at the Piano
We were just two gentlemen who worked on a show together, but oh, the music he made.
Streep and Shepard: 2 Straight Arrows Ascending
Sam Shepard and Meryl Streep both made defining marks on New York stages before wandering afield.
'Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design' Celebrates the Designer's Work
A retrospective, with images, on the work of set designer Ming Cho Lee.
What Joseph Papp Got Right
Theatre’s lineage—traced through Thespis, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and Papp—is inextricably linked to democracy’s.
West Probes Traumas, With No Flinching
Cheryl L. West is unafraid to go where her work take her, whether it’s the front lines of the HIV/AIDS crisis or the lives of generations of black women.
