A Composer/Singer Collaboration That’s in the Show’s DNA
Madeline Myers has written the new musical ‘Double Helix’ with and for its lead performer, Samantha Massell, who plays a woman scientist unjustly neglected by history.
Stories by Shoshana Greenberg
Itamar Moses: Every Day He Writes the Book
A playwright who finds writing musicals both impossible and irresistible, he has a new adaptation of ‘An American Tail’ opening at Children’s Theatre Company.
Revisiting the Elián Drama at Miami New Drama
A new play by Rogelio Martinez returns to a painful and contested piece of post-Cold War history and attempts to reckon with its wounds and lessons.
A Homecoming to ‘Knoxville’
A new musical based on Agee’s ‘Death in the Family’ from Ahrens, Flaherty, and Galati debuts at Florida’s Asolo Rep, almost exactly 2 years after COVID shut it down.
Director/Deviser: Tina Satter
The downtown artist didn’t ever expect or hope to be on Broadway, but her docutheatre piece ‘Is This A Room’ has defied expectations all along.
With (Robot) Love From Korea
The new show ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ at the Alliance in Atlanta puts a fresh East-West spin on the American musical.
Michael R. Jackson: What If
The form-breaking playwright/composer puts his work, and his audiences, through ‘A Strange Loop.’
Daniel Handler’s First Play, Inspired by—What Else?—an Unfortunate Event
In his first play, ‘Imaginary Comforts,’ the man behind Lemony Snicket confronts dread with his usual wicked wit.
Kirsten Childs Thinks Big
Her new musical ‘Bella’ is a tall tale about an unlikely Old West heroine.
For Michael John LaChiusa, When It Rains It Pours
With ‘Rain’ and ‘First Daughter Suite,’ the composer/lyricist returns to signature themes in typically uncharted ways.
