The Man Behind the Plays
Who was Shakespeare, anyhow? Do even the experts really know? And why should anybody care?
Category Archives: Opinion
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.
There’s Another Think There!
The rise and fall…and rise of ‘Seussical.’
Thinking About Writing About Thinking About New Plays
Or, how visual arts audiences got comfortable with radical innovation, while theatre audiences didn’t.
Tangled Up in Blue
Political trepidation translates to unfocused theatre at Humana Festival.
