Not There Yet
What will it take to achieve equality for women in the theatre?
Category Archives: Opinion
Plot? Mostly Not. No problem.
Humana’s varied menu is bolstered by new-play investigations.
An Eye on the Future
25 American artists envision the theatre’s next 25 years.
The Man Behind the Plays
Who was Shakespeare, anyhow? Do even the experts really know? And why should anybody care?
A Critic Infiltrates Paula Vogel’s Boot Camp
The results, she says, are transformational.
A Mixtape About Faith
Humana playwrights pose the question: What do you believe in?
Riding the Waves of History: ‘The Gem of the Ocean’
How August Wilson created the ‘mother of all the plays’ and one of the central roles in his canon.
Between the Lines
This year’s Humana plays were most revealing when they left a little to the imagination.
What Joseph Papp Got Right
Theatre’s lineage—traced through Thespis, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and Papp—is inextricably linked to democracy’s.
Aunt Ester’s Children: A Century On Stage
The author looks back on the beginnings and development of his 10-play cycle, singling out one character as the most significant.
