It’s All About the Execution in Belarus Free Theatre’s New ‘Trash Cuisine’
Hounded from their home country but staying together via Skype, Minsk’s toughest troupe is back in New York with another harrowing but mesmerizing piece.
Category Archives: Features
This Month in Theatre History
Auspicious births (Orson Welles, Howard Ashman) and major theatre foundings (the Old Globe, East West Players) mark previous Mays.
Border Crossing
Playwright/actor Raúl Castillo and director Jaime Castañeda create a site-specific piece.
A. Rey Pamatmat Looks Behind ‘all the terrible things’ for Answers
A play about how bullies got that way gets a staging at Huntington Theatre Company, while another of his plays is staged at Company One.
Rajiv Joseph Didn’t Just Write ‘Guards at the Taj’—He Took Them There
The writer of ‘Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo’ took actors Arian Moayed and Omar Metwally on a pilgrimage to the site of his newest play.
Cafe Nordo and Teatro ZinZanni, Seattle’s Moveable Theatrical Feasts
Audiences hungry for more than the usual fare are having their culinary and theatrical palates sated by the city’s nouveau dinner theatre offerings.
When the Saints Go Marching in a Mill Town
Molly Rice’s peripatetic ‘Saints Tour’ shows audiences new facets of their neighborhoods. Next stop: Braddock, Pa., in a collaboration with Bricolage.
For Sherrine Azab and Jake Hooker, Home Is Where the Hosts Are
Formative collaborative experiences in Brooklyn and Berlin inform this couple’s work with the Detroit-based company A Host of People.
Founding Fathers Who Look Like the Future
Recasting American history with non-white actors not only makes ‘Hamilton’ feel immediate, alive. It’s also a reminder that the story is still being written with each retelling.
Forecast for Silas Weir Mitchell: ‘Three Days of Rain’
The ‘Grimm’ star can’t stay away from the stage for long, whether in sunny L.A. or rainy Portland.
