Sarah McLellan: EST’s Developing Story
She brings an administrative brain to a small, hardy new-play company on the verge of an upgrade.
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Fish in Water: How White Playwrights Unpack Whiteness
Do a crop of inward-looking new plays about white privilege represent a step forward, or are they an expression of privilege in themselves?
Joe Mantello: The Way We Do the Things We Do
As a director, he’s interested in how people act on each other; he also has a visual instinct. Both came in handy for ‘Three Tall Women.’
Liesl Tommy Won’t Take No For an Answer
How the Tony-nominated director makes space for women of color in the theatre, not just herself.
The Subtext: Leah Nanako Winkler and Mark Schultz
This month’s episode is super-long because Brian James Polak traveled to the Humana Festival and spoke to two playwrights that were getting world premieres there.
Not Feeling It: Max Posner on ‘The Treasurer’
The long-standing distance between a mother and her son is not quite closed in this new play about grief, guilt, and longing.
Actors Home Seniors ‘Still Dreaming’ in PBS Documentary
Residents at the New Jersey home, many former Broadway pros, got another turn in a staging of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
Matt Shakman’s Geffen: In With the New
The theatre’s new artistic director hopes to make it a home for new plays and a wide range of voices that reflect Los Angeles.
How To Be an Artist in a World That Hates You
If you can find a calling that gives you peace, you owe it to yourself to follow it, no matter what stands in your way.
John Guare’s ‘Lydie Breeze’ Blows Back in 3 Parts
The 19th-century drama, now in trilogy form, has its premiere at Philly’s EgoPo Classic Theater.