Do We Even Need to Say This? Yes, Shakespeare Belongs on the Curriculum
A response to Dana Dusbiber’s wrongheaded ‘Washington Post’ column arguing that dead, white Shakespeare shouldn’t be taught anymore.
Features
Rough Writers Festival Take Cues From Georgia O’Keeffe’s Paintings
In conjunction with a touring exhibit of the painter’s works, eight new plays inspired by her art are on offer—including one by a distant relative.
Know a Theatre: Long Beach Playhouse of Long Beach, Calif.
This small two-stage theatre produces a wide-ranging season and operates 50 weeks out of the year.
Dancing on the Edge with Spring Valley High’s Thespian Troupe 721
How one dedicated director is keeping the theatre program alive and kicking at a struggling New York school.
7 Steps for Achieving Gender Parity in the Theatre
At an April conference in Toronto, we came up with a plan for change that can take root and grow into a more equitable future for female theatre artists.
Regina Taylor’s ‘stop.reset.’ Gives the Goodman Something to Tweet About
The author’s new play about the advance of technology offers tweet seats, an interactive hallway entrance and a microsite.
In Hollywood, Theatre Is Already on the Fringe, So Why Not Name It and Claim It?
Modeling itself after Edinburgh, the Hollywood Fringe Festival may be bigger than ever, but the shows are still small, scrappy and uncurated.
Rules of Clubbed Thumb: Funny, Strange, Provocative—and Fast
The troupe’s 20th Summerworks festival, featuring plays by Jerry Lieblich, Kate E. Ryan and Jaclyn Backhaus, showcases both its downtown aesthetics and its experimental work ethic.
The House Jac Alder Built: More Than Just a Theatre, a Theatre Community
Colleagues remember the visionary cofounder of Theatre Three, who died two weeks ago.
Turning Nashville’s Moment into New-Play Momentum
Plays in Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab go from seedling to sapling. The town’s new-play scene, and the appetite for it, is growing, too.
