Rutina Wesley, From ‘True Blood’ to ‘Twelfth Night’
The Old Globe’s newest Viola talks about same-sex attraction in Shakespeare, playing against type, and the wonders of Fiona Shaw.
Stories by Diep Tran
Diep Tran is a former senior editor of American Theatre. She received her degree in arts journalism at Syracuse University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Backstage, Salon, and TDF Stages. Tran read Sarah Kane’s Blasted when she was 20, and that hooked her onto theatre. Follow her on Twitter at @diepthought or visit her website at www.dieptran.com.
A Smaller, More Local Intiman Resurfaces in Seattle
How did Andrew Russell bring this venerable resident theatre back from the brink of debt and dysfunction? Slowly, carefully—and locally.
The Welders Get Ready to Pass the Torch to a New Crew of Theatremakers
The D.C.–based playwrights collective has found their replacements, who’ll take over in 2016 and steer the company in some new directions.
Dave Malloy’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Rachmaninoff
The ‘Great Comet’ composer returns to Russia for ‘Preludes,’ and this time it’s personal.
#TCG15 Day 1: “I Identify as Billionare”
At the opening gathering of Theatre Communications Group’s 2015 National Conference, the topics include race, Cleveland, and performance by any means necessary.
’10 Out of 12′: How the Other Half Techs
Anne Washburn’s new play at Soho Rep, about a troubled tech rehearsal, puts a fictional backstage crew and the show’s real backstage crew into a new kind of dialogue.
Rules of Clubbed Thumb: Funny, Strange, Provocative—and Fast
The troupe’s 20th Summerworks festival, featuring plays by Jerry Lieblich, Kate E. Ryan and Jaclyn Backhaus, showcases both its downtown aesthetics and its experimental work ethic.
‘Zombie: The American’ Occupies the White House
Robert O’Hara’s new play for Woolly Mammoth mixes Jacobean drama with political satire and the zombie apocalypse to make a statement about the undead way we live now.
‘Washeteria’ Puts Children’s Theatre Through the Rinse Cycle
How set designer Louisa Thompson, and the creative team at Soho Rep, turned an empty storefront into a hyper-realistic yet fantastical laundromat.
Playwright/Songwriter Ethan Lipton’s Special Skills
He follows his Obie-winning show ‘No Place to Go’ with the album ‘Raw Milk,’ and lets us have an exclusive listen to two new songs from it.
