Are We Entering a Special Period for Cuban Musicals?
While ‘On Your Feet!’ is conquering Broadway, the promising, musically vibrant ‘Cuba Libre’ bows in Portland.
Stories by Misha Berson
Cafe Nordo and Teatro ZinZanni, Seattle’s Moveable Theatrical Feasts
Audiences hungry for more than the usual fare are having their culinary and theatrical palates sated by the city’s nouveau dinner theatre offerings.
Actor Louis Hobson Is Rethinking Musicals in Seattle
Misha Berson on Louis Hobson’s plan to make Seattle a musical-theatre incubator.
Book-It Repertory Theatre Dramatizes Local Novels For A Growing Audience
Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre, led by Jane Jones and Myra Platt, has gone from adapting classic Western literature to local contemporary literature, drawing more and more local authors into theatre.
Robert Schenkkan Tells LBJ’s History in Rotating Rep
A Texas playwright takes on an iconic Texas politician in ‘All the Way’ and ‘The Great Society,’ and finds a figure of Shakespearean—i.e., tragic—proportions.
An Impresario With the Vision Thing
ACT Theatre’s Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi ups the artistic ante.
Cheryl West: Tough Love
Her new ‘Pullman Porter Blues’ celebrates an iconic slice of African-American history.
Elements of Style
Classical meets modern in Stephen Wadsworth’s collaborations with the quick and the dead.
Casting Across Cultures
Ott finds a new vision of ‘Kingdom Come.’ Also: video promos for theatre and a new Equity contract for Oregon Shakes.
A Magic Reality
Allan Bolt creates theatre for a troubled Nicaragua.
