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NEW YORK CITY: Manhattan Theatre Club today announced that artistic director Lynne Meadow has chosen to step into a new role as artistic advisor after 53 years as the company’s artistic director. The ...
Of course, not everyone was on board with the idea of removing the gatekeepers. The statement “ Go woke, go broke ” echoed in watercooler conversations and in mainstream media coverage about DEI ...
For his part, the should-be-legendary Doug Besterman has not just one but three shows with his orchestrations on Broadway this season: Death Becomes Her, Boop!, and Smash. A three-time past Tony ...
Following are edited excerpts from Garrett Eisler’s new book, Ben Hecht’s Theatre of Jewish Protest, a history and anthology of dramatic writings about the Holocaust by the playwright and screenwriter ...
They are among the most famous words spoken by a woman in a canonical American play: “Attention must be paid.” It’s Linda Loman, of course, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, admonishing her ...
In one of the first few scenes of Lisa D’Amour’s wild new play Frozen Section, a nonbinary grocery clerk named Sage chats about their gender nonconformity with a customer who’s more concerned that she ...
In December 1959, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the striking concrete home of Dallas Theater Center (DTC), welcomed its first audience. But its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, never saw a performance ...
In summer 2023, theatres around the country were still reeling in the aftermath of the Covid shutdowns of the previous few years. When New York City’s Public Theater laid off nearly 20 percent of its ...
Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts), in which the magazine’s editors, writers, and special guests tell us ...
Jordan Harrison is a playwright, no doubt, but I also think of him as a kind of archivist of human behavior. I don’t mean that his plays are usually, or only, set in earlier eras; even when they have ...
Back in 2010, when Baltimore Center Stage artistic director Stevie Walker-Webb was, in his words, “a 20-year-old, fresh-faced baby,” he founded Jubilee Theater in Waco, Texas—a first stab at leading a ...
Joseph Medeiros crouches on the whitewashed floor of Theaterlab, a small performing arts space in Manhattan’s Garment District, gesturing at a weathered leather briefcase. “In the next pocket,” he ...
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