The Great American Living-Room Play Gets a Remodel
In seeming to strike at the foundations of the realist family play, playwrights like Will Eno, Young Jean Lee and Taylor Mac may actually be proving the durability of its four walls.
Stories by Isaac Butler
The Facts on the Ground at Theater J
The backstage drama between D.C.’s influential Jewish theatre and its former artistic director Ari Roth has been as riveting, and as disputed, as anything on its stage.
The Conspiracy Theory Theatre of ‘Danny Casolaro’ and ‘Superheroes’
Two new plays in two different cities raise new questions about shadowy government plots of the 1980s. Coincidence?
What Happened to Theatre Under the Stars’ Production of ‘Hands on a Hardbody’
A Theatre Under the Stars production of “Hands on a Hardbody” gets shut down after extensive changes without the creators’ permission.
That August Wilson Feeling
The words and music of an American master get a fresh read, and they’re as impossible, and transformative, as ever.
The Wong Identity: Lloyd Suh and the Awesomeness of Difference
The author of “Jesus in India” and “American Hwangup” discusses the premiere of his new work at the Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis.
