Polyphone Is Bigger and Better the Second Time Around
This year the new musical festival boasted more shows, more performances, and a bigger industry turnout.
Category Archives: On the Scene
You’re in the Band: Bay Area Students Perform ‘School of Rock’
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical gets its first amateur staging at the Curran Theatre while still a hit on Broadway.
Salt Lake City Acting Company Playwrights’ Lab Promotes Playtime
The new-play development program gives writers the freedom to explore with the help of multidisciplinary artists.
Tomorrow’s Theatre Today at the Colorado New Play Summit
At the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’s annual new play festival, diversity was front and center.
At Wayne State, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Meets Both Its Sequels
How three plays about Lorraine Hansberry’s Younger family and their house resonate with each other—and with our current moment.
TEDxBroadway Explores the Magic of Possibility
Themes of accessibility and technology drove this year’s conference about the future of Broadway.
What Was the Wooster Group Thinking With Pinter’s ‘The Room’?
After percolating for nearly 40 years, the Group’s notion of staging Pinter finally clicked after a trip to China. But for now this door has closed.
‘All New’ Plays Take the Stage at Alley Theatre
The Houston company tries its hand at new-play development for the first time.
Little Money but Plenty Coeurage of Conviction
One of L.A.’s best small theatres runs like a business, minus the finances but not the headaches.
Sampling Locally Grown, Artisanal Theatre at Portland’s Fertile Ground
Amid the January rains, theatre artists and audiences scramble from show to show at a festival of seedlings, blossoms, and tilling for future harvests.
