People to Watch: Whitney White and Kecia Lewis
A busy director with a new play about Queen Margaret at Hudson Valley Shakes, and a Broadway veteran cooking in ‘Hell’s Kitchen.’
Features
Brandon J. Dirden Caps the Wilson Cycle With a ‘Gem’
As either actor or director, often at N.J.’s Two River Theater, he’s tackled all 10 plays in August Wilson’s canon, but he’s not resting on his laurels.
New Plays, Good Food, Great Plains: A Proven Recipe
While other new-work development hubs have dried up, the Great Plains Theatre Commons continues its convivial creative tradition with local and national support.
The Right (to) Protest
The war in Gaza has put a fresh spotlight on the question of what theatres and artists should say or do in response.
Wish You Were Here
A roundtable on how to create radically welcoming access at the theatre.
This Month in Theatre History
June looks back on Frederick Douglass’s criticisms of blackface, Uta Hagen’s legacy, Eugene O’Neill’s nine-act ‘Interlude,’ Steppenwolf’s ‘Menagerie,’ and a Lynne Nottage premiere.
All the Lonely People
We say theatre can be healing, but what if that were literally true?
Elinor Fuchs, Peerless Guide to Theatre’s ‘Small Planet’
A lively and perceptive watcher and thinker, she helped generations of artists and critics view theatre as a kind of space and time travel.
They Will Survive: Theatres That Are Beating the Odds
Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing.
Paula Vogel, Tina Landau, and the Room That Made ‘Mother Play’
A far-ranging conversation about their common approach to text as a springboard, why they’re past theory, and how they introduced Jessica Lange to Viewpoints.
