Syria’s Most Marginalized People Share a Stage and Find Common Ground
What can theatre possibly mean to migrant workers and refugees in one of the world’s most violent regions? Ask ‘Antigone.’
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Reunited Twins + Two Adaptations = ‘Double Trouble’
This new version of ‘The Parent Trap’ story, about teen girls separated by a divorce, draws on the German original but updates it for the contemporary U.S.
Emily Mann: The Quiet Radical
In 1990, the theatre’s board gambled on a young writer/director with an agenda. It’s paid off: Mann built a team around her vision, attracted new audiences, and steered the company through both crisis and triumph.
Have You Met Miss (Rhodessa) Jones? She Owns the Earth and Sky
She comes from a large family of theatremakers. Is it any wonder she makes family, and theatre, everywhere she goes, from Cultural Odyssey to the California’s prisons?
Curating Emotion and Blowing Minds at Mass Live Arts
Andrew Schneider’s synesthetic masterwork ‘YOUARENOWHERE’ kicks off another summer of barrier-breaking performance at the Berkshires fest.
Dave Malloy’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Rachmaninoff
The ‘Great Comet’ composer returns to Russia for ‘Preludes,’ and this time it’s personal.
Pay Your Money, Take Your Chances: Is This Any Way to Run a Theatre Review Site?
This year, Bitter Lemons’ annual critic’s panel wasn’t a discussion of the state of L.A. theatre criticism so much as a defense of the website’s controversial pay-for-review policy.
#TCG15 Plenary 4: Life-Saving, Game-Changing, and Stories That Matter
The TCG conference closed with a panel of artistic leaders discussing artistic risk vs. institution-building, and feted two dedicated field veterans, Rhodessa Jones and Jim O’Quinn.
#TCG15 Plenary 3: The How and the Why of Storytelling
Conference attendees listened to one of America’s great listeners, StoryCorps’ Dave Isay, as he shared both how he captures people’s lives on tape—and why it’s worth doing.
#TCG15 Plenary 2: The Democracy of Consciousness
Access and daring, expression and dramatic action were among the themes of a meaty morning plenary with ‘Fun Home’ writer Lisa Kron and NEA chairman Jane Chu.
