The Other Side of Summer
How the season’s theatre festivals are faring amid rising costs, fickle audiences, and the warming planet.
Stories by Stuart Miller
‘Between Two Knees’: Between Slaughter and Laughter
This raucous remix of Native American history by the 1491s, co-creators of ‘Reservation Dogs,’ is now onstage in NYC after a 6-year journey across the U.S.
David Lindsay-Abaire’s Working-Class Women
The playwright of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Good People’ reflects on a body of work that has evolved in style but can’t help but show his roots.
2 Artists at the Top of Their ‘Endgame’
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson, who first bonded in a Public staging of ‘King Lear,’ confront the opacity, playfulness, and unavoidable bleakness of another master, Beckett.
Vengeance, Plague, Death, Confusion: Stacy Keach, Ed Gero Join Zoom ‘Lear’ Reading
An online benefit on Shakespeare’s birthday will reunite some storied professional casts with local Pennsylvania actors.
The Business of ‘Carol’
More than a mere box-office cash cow, Dickens’s classic is a community builder, a gateway drug, and a holiday tradition.
The Long, Strange Flight of ‘Mockingbird’
The new Broadway version, and its legal battles, are just the latest chapter in a complicated 50-year history of the popular novel’s theatrical life.
7 Educators on Training for the Future
When teaching arts administration, data and tech are important tools to have, but the human connection remains paramount.
An RBG Appearance Isn’t a Talkback, It’s an Event
At a matinee of ‘The Originalist,’ John Strand’s play about Justice Scalia, his old frenemy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, showed up to talk about the state of the Supreme Court and the nation.
They Speak Lighting
How master designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer help us see what their directors want to show us.
