How to Retell a Classic: The Many Shades of ‘The Color Purple’
Playwright and screenwriter Marcus Gardley may not have known it at the time, but he had been preparing to adapt Alice Walker’s iconic tale for decades.
Playwright and screenwriter Marcus Gardley may not have known it at the time, but he had been preparing to adapt Alice Walker’s iconic tale for decades.
The executive director has been with the company for 23 years.
At Milwaukee Rep and around the world, this passionate director put his focus on others—writers, actors, audiences—and we all benefited.
Why can’t Americans talk to each other anymore? Theatre artists may have precisely the right skills to kickstart discourse and rekindle empathy.
The writer of ‘Slave Play’ will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.
For 13 years, Kathy Evans’s new-work development program in upstate New York has given writers what they need to make new musicals.
Co-artistic director Jay Duffer will take over as the company’s sole leader.
Berry comes to New York from Minnesota’s Penumbra Theatre.
‘Ghost Waltz,’ Oliver Mayer’s new play at Latino Theater Company, excavates the life of Juventino Rosas, an obscure musician who wrote one of the most popular earworms of all time.
The playwright’s new play at Intar draws on his own youth for lessons about masculinity, assimilation, and language.