What’s on the Menu?
For this year’s preview of U.S. theatre’s offerings, we look at the how and why as much as the what.
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.
Take Shakespeare for Granted? He’ll None of It
Our magazine doesn’t include the Bard on its annual most-produced lists, but this year he snuck his way to the top anyway.
The Gender & Period Count: The More Things Change…
Once again, new plays far outnumber revivals and classics—and they’re the only sector in which the playwriting gender gap is narrowing.
A Room Full of Mirrors
For all its heightened relevance and accountability, documentary theatre can’t be constrained by its subject.
Meet Sara Holdren, Theatre Critic and Theatremaker
New York magazine’s new critic is also New York’s newest critic, and she says she’s as ready to listen as to talk.
This Must Be the Place
You can tell where theatre happens from its name.
#TCG17 Plenary 2: Out of the Silos
Speeches by Susan Medak and Jeff Chang challenged the field to face its divisions, and our culture’s.
#TCG17 Opening Plenary: Welcome to the West
The conference in Stumptown kicks off with a look back and a bracing glimpse at Oregon stories.
Arian Moayed Brings His Whole (Divided) Self to ‘Hamlet’
Setting Shakespeare’s tragedy in Persia isn’t just an aesthetic choice for the Iranian-American actor; it’s an existential one.
Murray Mednick Stages L.A.’s Interior Sprawl in ‘The Gary Plays’
In six plays at Open Fist Theatre, a middle-aged actor with a murdered son goes to hell (literally) and back, and many points between.
