Gay-Marriage Plays: Changing Minds or Simply Celebrating the Change?
With a spate of new plays depicting the newest revolution in marriage rights, playwrights and producers ponder their role in the drama.
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The Political and the Personal Are in Dialogue in Amy Herzog’s Plays
With ‘After the Revolution,’ ‘4000 Miles’ and ‘Belleville,’ this young, Yale-educated playwright shows equal parts ambition and nuance, teeth and sympathy.
On the Job
Theatre pros recall the doors they’ve opened by assisting (including a few better left closed).
I Get a Sidekick Out of You
For one young director, assisting is a tricky balancing act with a great view.
Design Is Not a Private Affair
And it never has been, say pros who relish their assistants’ creativity and appetite for knowledge.
Supporting Roles
Assisting is a rite of passage for many artists. Are they getting ahead—or just getting coffee?
Learning by Lending a Hand
In Jan. 2012’s “Approaches to Theatre Training” issue, we ask directors, actors, and writers what it means–and how it feels–to be an assistant.
Stephen Sondheim, Playwright in Song
In the midst of publishing two definitive books about his lyrics, the musical theatre master ponders his accomplishments, his way of working, and the form and future of the American musical.
Sandy Harper’s Northern Lights
On the stage she and her husband founded, Alaskan artists and themes are right at home.
In the Beginning Was the Body
From Lecoq and Laban to Michael Chekhov and Suzuki, U.S. movement training derives its strength and purpose from abroad.
