They Speak Lighting

How master designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer help us see what their directors want to show us.

The Donor Class Struggle

As funding for the arts shifts inexorably from corporations to individuals, can theatres maintain their edge?

Under Jackie Alexander’s leadership, North Carolina Black Rep’s biennial gathering aims to connect playwrights and producers.

In Claire Lizzimore’s new play at Atlantic, Hall has just the sort of workout she looks for: playing a woman whose life is coming apart.

The Nigerian-American playwrights puts ‘Sojourners’ and ‘Her Portmanteau’ into rep and talks about the other 7 in the cycle.

Bed-Stuy’s longtime black theatre gets a new leader and fresh momentum.

Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp keep the Jeune Lune flame burning with a fresh, improvisatory take on an old chestnut.

Russians, who’ve begun to develop a taste for American-style musicals, recently downed a shot of Broadway.

Why some theatres—and their loyal audiences—keep eagerly boarding the repertory merry-go-round, season after grueling season.

New York Shakespeare Exchange, having run through the sonnets, expands its sights to the whole distracted globe.