The Familiar and the New: Teaching Black Plays in Jewish High Schools
How a plan to teach ‘Pipeline’ and ‘School Girls’ grew into a curriculum stressing both the plays’ universality and specificity on issues of race, colorism, and inequity.
Stories by Lonnie Firestone
What Does ‘Foxes’ Say? Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney Find Out
The stars alternate in the leads of Lillian Hellman’s spiky classic in Manhattan Theatre Club’s new revival.
Prince’s Theatre
Harold Prince has always made work that matters to him—and most often to a wide audience.
Mark Rylance Chisels at His Midwestern Roots in ‘Nice Fish’
One of the world’s great Shakespearean actors reconnects with his youth on a frozen ice lake in his new play.
Football Dramas That Love the Players, Question the Game
Three new plays aren’t giving the NFL a pass for its brain-injury crisis and macho culture.
Heated Dialogue, Onstage and Off, at Theater J
As the leader of D.C.’s Jewish theatre, Ari Roth works to keep the dialogue going, even—or especially—when it’s contentious.
Change By Degrees
Can theatre for social change be taught? Here’s a roundup of theatre-studies programs where arts activism is on the syllabus.
‘Bull Durham’ in a New Ballpark
Ron Shelton’s “Bull Durham” goes from a baseball movie to a baseball musical, slated to run at the Alliance Theatre and directed by Kip Fagan.
History and Theatre Have a Summit in Lawrence Wright’s ‘Camp David’
The journalist-turned-playwright explores the historic accords in a new play at Arena Stage.
Musical Composers and Lyricists in Pursuit of the Good Book
In writing musicals, the playwright’s job is to build the structure, then get out of the way.
