Making Space Onstage
Efforts like Fat Theatre Project and Broadway Bods are fighting for more opportunities for performers who identify as fat and to change the way they’re seen onstage.
Category Archives: Features
The Path: How 6 Actors Learned Their Craft
From conservatories to MFAs to youth ensembles, the best training to reflect human behavior onstage can take as many forms as life itself.
J.T. Rogers: Looking Outward
The playwright of ‘Oslo’ and the new ‘Corruption’ likes to wrestle in public with the things that trouble him and our politics.
From Chicago, Contraction and Expansion
This month, theatres are still making tough programming choices as they look hopefully toward growing into the future, plus thoughts from Willow James and Tiffany Keane Schaefer.
$10 Million Gift at 59E59 Means Rent-Free Runs for Producing Companies
Companies who stage works at the NYC venue now won’t have to worry about rental costs.
Tomorrow’s Tamoras and Titanias: How to Heal the High School Space
High school theatre programs have often been sites of harm, particularly for femme and non-binary kids of color, but some are paving a better path forward.
Vanessa Severo, Joanie Schultz, and Theatre That Sticks With You
From an instant connection at a workshop to world premiere productions, the creative duo’s working relationship has continued to blossom over the years.
Shaina Taub: Making Feminism Sing in ‘Suffs’
Her musical about the suffragists behind the 19th Amendment comes to Broadway with a few amendments of its own (and with Hillary Clinton as a producer).
Into the ‘Babble Lab’ With Autumn Ness
A new Dada-influenced work from this longtime Children’s Theatre Company member explores the intersection of sound and language.
The Unpredictable Experiment: 25 Years of Sloan Science Plays
From ‘Proof’ to ‘Behind the Sheet,’ the Sloan Foundation has supported hundreds of plays about science and scientists. What can we learn from this still growing body of work?
