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This Month in Theatre History

From the deadliest theatre fire in U.S. history to a young Tennessee Williams’s fateful move to New Orleans, December was a momentous month.

From the first interracially cast ‘Othello’ to the founding of our longest-running queer troupe, this was a memorable month for theatre.

Suzan-Lori Parks, Robert Woodruff, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and Loretta Greco recall what America’s great bard of the West meant to them.

Theatrical milestones of Septembers past range from the start of van Itallie’s relationship with the Open Theater to the launch of the Arden.

Why does the author of ‘True West’ write plays? To see and hear things he can’t find anywhere else.