Daniel MacIvor’s Lessons in Love and Dramaturgy
The Canadian playwright of “The Best Brothers” didn’t know he had a play in him about an annoying but ultimately lovable new best friend.
Category Archives: Features
The Very Model of Modern Gilbert and Sullivan
The Hypocrites’ plucky, stripped-down takes on the G&S canon have become something of a sensation, and now they’re running them in a three-ring rep.
The Style and Substance of Tim Robbins’s Actors’ Gang
After three decades, the punk-rock/commedia troupe founded by a bunch of UCLA theatre grads has become an international force, and its star leader is still fighting the good fight.
If I Had a Hammer
A witness of the U.S. Civil Rights struggle happened to be on hand for the historic fall of the Berlin Wall, and the moment resonated.
A Bright New Louisville
Louisville’s burgeoning indie scene is attracting—and increasingly keeping—a flock of eager theatremakers.
Uh-Oh, Oh No: Theatres Face Challenges at 2014 TCG Fall Forum
Over three days in November, speakers and attendees worked through intertwining questions of finances, programming and diversity.
Longform Improv Goes the Distance
More than an acting exercise or a comedy gimmick, improv may have grown into the legit theatrical genre some of its pioneers always envisioned.
Impro Raises the Theatrical Bar
How a troupe of L.A.-based improvisers reawakened one critic’s taste for the possibilities of live theatre.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Die Onstage
The distance from the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Improvised Shakespeare may not be as far as you think.
Mike Nichols, from ‘Barefoot’ to ‘Betrayal’
A director whose stage career spanned improv, tragedy, even musicals, as well as some very fine film adaptations of plays.
