The National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals at New World Stages, which ran for its 37th year Oct. 23-24, offers an annual chance to reflect on the state of new musicals and ...
On this episode we speak to the writer and director of the new play ‘Mother of Exiles,’ and talk arts funding and community engagement with author Donna Walker ...
Bernarda’s harsh rule over her daughters reveals secrets and forbidden desires, leading to tragic consequences. A powerful story of control and passion. Also available on demand. Performed in Spanish ...
In the Time of the Butterflies is a play based on Julia Álvarez’s novel, portraying four sisters resisting Trujillo’s brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. Premiered in 2011, it remains in ...
The present is never alone. Take comfort: There is future, and there is past. We walk, hand in hand, with ghosts of world stages: all the players who have exited, shadows of violence, sets in ruins.
A new book explores what the life of a middling actor in the pre-Civil War era can teach us about his time—and about notions of individualism and merit that are still with us in American theatre ...
Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck’s new musical at La Jolla Playhouse, based on the hit film, eyes the absurdities of the 1980s work culture—and the inequalities that are still with us. But Lauper isn’t ...
An interview by director Yury Urnov with the playwright of ‘My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion,’ which appears in our Fall 2025 issue. SASHA DENISOVA: Literally everything has changed—except the war.
A colleague remembers the ‘Coyote Cycle’ playwright and Padua Hills co-founder, who died on Oct. 17 at age 86, for his metrical dialogue, his tenacity, and his mentorship. The playwright Murray ...