Jack O’Brien and André Bishop’s Final Duet at Lincoln Center Theater
With an intimate new staging of Ibsen’s thorny ‘Ghosts,’ the versatile director and seasoned producer, who’s nearing the end of his LCT tenure, are not going quietly.
All Stories About Tom Stoppard
Could It Happen Here? How U.S. and U.K. Plays Are Staging Antisemitism’s Resurgence
Over the past year, no fewer than 10 shows on both sides of the Atlantic have addressed the historical rise of Nazism and/or the troubling resurfacing of antisemitism.
Jewish Joy, Jewish Trauma: Why They Feel Different Onstage Now
How a number of recent shows in New York are landing, and what it feels like to work on them, in a time of rising antisemitism and right-wing violence.
Offscript: How Is This Time for Jews Onstage Different From All Others?
A conversation with Joel Grey, Tovah Feldshuh, Caissie Levy, Michael Arden, and Bess Wohl about portrayals of Jewishness and antisemitism on New York stages.
How Jack O’Brien Learned to Direct: Watching, Doing, and Living to Tell
In a new memoir, the longtime Old Globe leader and frequent Broadway helmer considers an eventful career and offers tips he picked up the hard way.
Fragments, Loss, and Language: On the Jewishness of Pinter and Stoppard
An excerpt from a new book about the lessons learned from staging the work of 2 major English writers.
Storied Selves: Biographies of Nichols and Stoppard
Two new books about men whose charmed and eventful lives were as much acts of creation as the plays and films they produced.
PEN America Awards 4 Authors, Including 2 Playwrights, With Literary Honors
Tom Stoppard and Tanya Barfield are among this year’s PEN America literary honorees.
Blanka Zizka Is Remaking the Wilma From Within
In seeking to transform the Wilma Theater into a company with its own aesthetic code, its artistic director is rediscovering her own passions as well.
Nashville Repertory Theatre Announces 2015–16 Season
The bill includes plays by Gina Gionfriddo and Tom Stoppard, plus a world premiere by resident playwright Nate Eppler.
