The Wild and Woolly Worlds of Playwright Sibyl Kempson
The experimental theatremaker takes her cues from the natural world, the subconscious, and feminist thought in her genre-defining works.
Yearly Archives: 2015
One Key to the Simpsons’ Marriage: They Trade Hats Easily
Sometimes she directs and he acts, sometimes vice versa. For Wyoming’s Pete and Lynne Simpson, it’s all in a life’s work.
Schindler and Neutra: Architects Who Couldn’t Avoid Each Other, Despite Their Best Efforts
Tom Lazarus’s new play ‘Princes of Kings Road’ traces two Viennese modernists who briefly worked together, then split up—then met again in an L.A. hospital.
The Play Company Announces a Season of Premieres in 2015–16
The lineup includes work by indie-rock band Sky-Pony and a copresentation with Ripe Time.
15 After 20, Part 1: Actors Who Trained Together in the Mid-’90s, and Where They Are Now
As young actors at Harvard, they formed a kind of de facto theatre company. Then they hit the pavement in New York. Here’s the story of their last 20 years.
Onstage This Week: Aug. 31–Sept. 6
Musicals and plays, both old and new, usher in Labor Day weekend across the U.S.
Keith Josef Adkins’s New Play Recovers ‘The People Before the Park’
A new historical drama at New Jersey’s Premiere Stages sifts through the history of Seneca Village, a black and immigrant community razed for Central Park.
The History Play That Got Away
Oregon Shakes’s history-play commissioning project may not have funded the founding fathers hip-hop musical everyone’s talking about, but their slate so far is pretty revolutionary anyway.
Mark Rucker Made Room for Others, and There Was No Better Place to Be
Gentle but passionate, as handy with farce as with tragedy, the late director brought together the Bay Area’s disparate theatrical tribes like no one else.
Water, Holy and Otherwise: Double Edge Dives In
The farm-based Massachusetts company draws upon the life of lead actor Carlos Uriona for ‘Once a Blue Moon.’
