Whole New Worlds: How Science Fiction Is Materializing Onstage
What are today’s science fiction and fantasy plays but a kind of modern mythology?
Category Archives: The Agenda꞉ From the Editor
Learning to Listen, From August Wilson to Mac Rogers to Taylor Mac
The actor Brandon Dirden speaks about his life’s work, while playwright Mac Rogers branches out into a perfect new medium for his talents.
Presence, Perception, Purgatory: The New American Supernaturalism
Stephen Karam’s ‘The Humans,’ like Annie Baker’s ‘John,’ uses realism to sharpen our attention to something bigger.
Shrinking Space, Time Out of Mind
The paper of record dispenses with design credits, while ‘Futurity’ imagines a new musical theatre.
If a Deaf Musical Is Possible, There Is Room on Our Stages for Everyone
The artistry of Deaf and disabled theatre workers has been amply demonstrated. Why aren’t they centerstage more regularly?
6 Takeaways From the ‘Mikado’ Yellowface-Off
The fight over minority representation onstage is about broadening, not narrowing, opportunity and artistry.
Scripture Is Changeable, But Shakespeare? Heaven Forfend
Oregon Shakespeare Fest’s new translation project pits purity against clarity, 400 years of reverence against a few hours’ traffic of the stage.
Change of the Seasons
An issue of a magazine, like a theatrical season, is a menu of options reflecting our tastes, affinities, and priorities.
We Are Part of the Problem—and of the Solution
Year after year, our national season preview survey shows a 4-to-1 ratio of male to female playwrights. What can we do about it?
‘Pot Mom’ Gets Relit in Nashville, and I’m Having Flashbacks
Justin Tanner’s great 1990s comedies taught me about the beautiful impermanence of theatre. But artists keep creating, and plays can be revived. Maybe you can go home again.
