Horrors! The Audience Is Alive!
It is theatre’s blessing and curse that it shares space with all of humanity—even humans with cell phones.
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.
How Lynn Nottage, Inveterate Wanderer, Found Her Way to Reading and ‘Sweat’
The playwright of ‘Ruined’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’ talks about her new play, inspired by America’s ‘de-industrial revolution’ and bowing this month at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
The Why; Also Lots of What and How and Who
Reporting for duty to the field I’ve had my eye on for decades.
Have You Met Miss (Rhodessa) Jones? She Owns the Earth and Sky
She comes from a large family of theatremakers. Is it any wonder she makes family, and theatre, everywhere she goes, from Cultural Odyssey to the California’s prisons?
The Kilroys Make Another List of Plays by Women You Should Know
As the impact of their first list is still being felt, the group announces a new list that reflects steps to increase the diversity of voices.
#TCG15 Plenary 2: The Democracy of Consciousness
Access and daring, expression and dramatic action were among the themes of a meaty morning plenary with ‘Fun Home’ writer Lisa Kron and NEA chairman Jane Chu.
Turning Nashville’s Moment into New-Play Momentum
Plays in Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab go from seedling to sapling. The town’s new-play scene, and the appetite for it, is growing, too.
With ‘Paper Planet’ and the Toddler Takeover, the Playscape’s the Thing
At a three-day festival led by the Alliance Theatre, and in an Aussie import at the New Victory Theatre, theatre for the very young is growing up fast.
Terence McFarland Leaves LA Stage Alliance: The Exit Interview
How this accidental arts administrator worked to aggregate the stretched-thin assets of Southland theatres.
Kwame Kwei-Armah Imagines ‘Marley’ in Exile
A new bio-musical of the iconic Jamaican singer at Center Stage narrows the focus to a fertile period of tension and creativity in London.
