Ann Ronell: Count Her In
In an excerpt from the new book ‘Women Writing Musicals,’ we learn about the songwriter who became the first woman to write music and lyrics for a full Broadway score, in 1942.
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We Can Work It Out
Two new books lift the voices of designers and production workers on their art and their labor.
Hermitage Major Theater Award, Joe A. Callaway Awards, and More
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Double Edge Theatre, Where the Land Is a Star and a Collaborator
The Massachusetts collective, known for its site-roving parade spectacles, also convenes artists and activists and community around its rural roots.
Dallas’s Latinidades Was More Than a Festival
This celebration of community stretched over weeks and connected Latine and Latin American performance.
Remains and Resistance: Native Voices’ ‘Antíkoni’
A new adaptation of Sophocles’s classic will be staged at a museum that once held Native remains—but it’s hardly a staid museum piece.
This Month in Theatre History
From British loyalist plays to Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Elements of Style,’ Edwin Booth’s ‘Hamlet’ to Lynn Nottage’s birth.
Ian Belknap Named New York Stage & Film’s Artistic Director
Starting on Nov. 11, he takes over from interim artistic director Liz Carlson and joins newly promoted associate artistic director Isabelle (Fereshteh) Sanatdar Stevens.
Legacy Playwrights Awards, Stephen Schwartz Award, and More
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into ‘The Great Gatsby’
With so many adaptations, including the return of Elevator Repair Service’s ‘GATZ,’ are artists reinventing a classic—or destined to repeat the errors of the past?
