Humana 2015: Pig Iron Launches a Gay Space Opera
Inspired equally by ‘Star Wars’ and Charles Ludlam, the Philly troupe’s ‘I Promised Myself to Live Faster’ explores the intersection of tween sexual awakening and sci-fi fantasy.
Category Archives: Features
If You Are What You Do, I Guess I’m Not a Playwright Anymore
Retiring from a creative calling that never really paid my bills has been much harder than I’d imagined—but it seems to have already happened anyway.
Pièces de résistance in Budapest, With an Emphasis on the Resistance
Political corruption bleeds into private lives as boundaries are breached in performances at Hungary’s dunaPart3 showcase. (Part 2 of 2)
Judith Malina: A Vibrant Tremor
The Living Theatre cofounder embodied ‘beautiful, nonviolent anarchist revolution’ in her life and her art.
PJ Paparelli Stages a Chicago Housing Crisis
American Theater Company’s docutheatre piece ‘The Project(s)’ takes up residence at the intersection of poverty, race and real estate.
Hungarian Theatre and Its Government Inspectors
In the face of the country’s continuing rightward drift, independent theatres show their mettle at Budapest’s dunaPart3 festival. (Part 1 of 2)
Anna Deavere Smith to Preview New Work as Part of NEH Lecture
The playwright/performer will speak about her search for the American character, including pieces from work-in-progress about the school-to-prison pipeline.
Know a Theatre: Virginia Repertory Theatre of Richmond, Va.
There’s no ‘art for art’s sake’ at this storied River City theatre, which has a rich history and keeps its focus on local artists and audiences.
‘Alice’ in a Rock-and-Roll Wonderland at Chicago Children’s Theatre
Rachel Rockwell and Michael Mahler’s new version takes inspiration from Joan Jett, Queen and the Beatles as much as from Lewis Carroll.
Randall Duk Kim and Anne Occhiogrosso Channel the Greats in ‘Then Came Each Actor’
The couple honor theatrical history with a retrospective of great actors—Eleanor Duse, Sarah Siddons, Edwin Booth—and their greatest roles.
