2019’s Most Popular Stories, and Some That Should Have Been Contenders
It was a year of provocation, controversy, and turnover—and that was just in the theatre.
Stories by Rob Weinert-Kendt
Rob Weinert-Kendt is editor-in-chief of American Theatre. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West and writes about theatre for the New York Times, Time Out NY, and the Los Angeles Times. He studied film at USC and is a composer member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.
Ken Ludwig’s Love Letter to His Pen-Pal Parents
The comic playwright’s new play ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ is based on his parents’ WWII courtship by mail.
Lifetime Achievements
What can we learn from those who came before us? Things we will one day pass on.
Theatre Administrator: Joan Channick
The best way to follow her path-breaking lead, she says, is not to follow in her exact footsteps.
Artistic Director: Ron Sossi
Once feeling stranded in TV land, he cast out on his own and hasn’t looked back.
Godfrey L. Simmons Jr.: Vision and Mission
The co-founding leader of Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble prepares to take the helm of the similarly community-minded HartBeat Ensemble in Connecticut.
Andy Garcia Unlocks ‘Key Largo’
Known for calm, eye-of-the-storm roles, the Florida-raised actor brings the thunder in his own adaptation of the iconic gangster drama.
Lear deBessonet Named New Artistic Director of Encores!
Where will this acclaimed director, slated to succeed Jack Viertel, take New York’s beloved musical theatre revival program?
A Windy City Mirror
Some of the nation’s biggest theatrical questions are being asked, and vigorously answered, in Chicago.
Tim Sanford: Not Averse to Being Perverse
Playwrights Horizons’s outgoing artistic director has always programmed the plays he’d like to see, and sometimes plays his subscribers don’t.
