Where Do You Learn to Write Musicals?
Seven composers, lyricists, and book writers share where and how they trained to create work for the stage.
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Seven composers, lyricists, and book writers share where and how they trained to create work for the stage.
From ACT’s San Francisco move to the premieres of ‘Finian’s Rainbow’ and ‘Forbidden Broadway,’ January was hardly a chilly month for theatre.
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How the Colts’ crushing near-victory in the ’96 playoffs helped make me a playwright, for real.
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.
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The history of Othello in the U.S. tells a story of race, erasure, and reclamation.
In this excerpt from ‘Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words,’ the ensemble recounts their first Broadway transfer.
Whether they’re at home or abroad, the couple makes international stories and activism a priority.