Finding Her Way to ‘Dry Land’
Playwright Ruby Rae Spiegel speaks with a former teacher and mentor about the gestation of her strikingly honest play about high school friendships.
Yearly Archives: 2015
PlayGround Finds a New Home at Thick House
PlayGround will further its mission to support independent artists and find new voices with a renovation of Thick House.
You’re Only Live Once: Big Musicals Hit the Small Screen, With No Retakes
‘Grease: Live’ and ‘The Wiz Live!’ aim to wed TV’s reach to theatre’s liveness. Is this marriage working?
About Face Names Dean Carpenter as Managing Director
Chicago native Dean Carpenter will take the reins as general manager of About Face Theatre Company.
Our Bar Gives Actors Opportunities to Perform Between Gigs
Many actors pay the bills with jobs at watering holes, but Our Bar gives them opportunities to perform at a pub while between shows.
Belarus Free Theatre: a Miraculous 10 Years, Feted With a 10-Show ‘Revolution’
A two-week festival showed this unique theatre-in-exile at its best, with stunning tableaux, riveting storytelling, and a push for change in and beyond their repressed homeland.
How ‘Steel Hammer’ Forges the John Henry Myth Into the Story of a Community
In refracting an American folk legend through a musical-theatrical lens, SITI Company and their collaborators create a powerful tool to fight the machine.
Onstage This Week: Nov. 30–Dec. 6
It’s a drama-filled week from Pittsburgh to Tucson, complete with morphing chickens, striptease acts, and trailer-park shenanigans.
What Will Steven Leigh Morris Do at LA Stage Alliance? A Critical Q&A
The longtime theatre writer for the LA Weekly and Stage Raw was already a local theatre leader; his new job just makes it official.
Stephen Sondheim Receives 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Obama presented the nation’s highest civilian honor to 17 recipients; among those were theatre artists Sondheim, Barbra Streisand, Emilio Estefan, and Gloria Estefan.
