Addie’s Last Tape
A look at Steppenwolf’s new staging of Faulkner’s ‘As I Lay Dying.’
A look at Steppenwolf’s new staging of Faulkner’s ‘As I Lay Dying.’
Humana Festival playwrights project trouble on the home front.
At this year’s Humana Festival, American playwrights had one thing on their minds.
A playwright speculates on God’s theatrical opinions and other mysteries.
How the design team of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ reinvented a rock-and-roll classic.
The theatre of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a traveling graveyard that combines monumentality with patchwork and reimagines the connection between politics and the sacred.
What a viewing of 3 different productions of Paula Vogel’s second-generation AIDS play reveals about its essence and possibilities.
Death came for everyone, or nearly so, in this year’s Humana Festival offerings.
Why ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ should remain open to interpretation.
Common to all the writing of this quintessentially English playwright, under-exposed in the U.S., is a reluctance to take people, or situations, at face value.