J.T. Rogers: Looking Outward
The playwright of ‘Oslo’ and the new ‘Corruption’ likes to wrestle in public with the things that trouble him and our politics.
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The playwright of ‘Oslo’ and the new ‘Corruption’ likes to wrestle in public with the things that trouble him and our politics.
In a new solo show, the seasoned actor wrestles with an unassuming president’s legacy, and with the stark disparities between his version of Republican politics and today’s GOP.
Like the characters in his language-lacerating work, the Chicago-bred playwright often spoils for a fight, even when the topic isn’t his increasingly conservative politics.
The author of the near-future history play ‘King Charles III’ turns his attention to our once and possibly future president, but is it a comedy or a tragedy?
A political science experiment to gather diverse Americans inspired a stage version at Florida Studio Theatre, which also brought people together to reflect on their similarities and differences.
Her film ‘Red Pill,’ which she thinks of as a Black woman’s ‘Get Out,’ views the nation’s ills through the lens of horror.
The directors and choreographers’ union makes its first presidential endorsement to meet an ‘extraordinary, destabilizing’ moment.
In a state that tipped red decisively in 2016, the opportunity for theatrical dialogue across divides seems ripe and freshly urgent.
American plunder didn’t begin with this administration. Our theatrical dissent must be grounded in a holistic critique of state violence.
The nonprofit theatre’s mandate to serve as a town hall, a sort of secular church for the democratic spirit, has seldom been more salient.