Co-Pros and Solos, Sure, But Also Ambition and Artistry
The offerings that are emerging from the midst of contraction and crisis show how theatres can balance values and budgets.
Category Archives: Features
Making Space for ‘Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress’
Children’s Theatre Company proudly debuts juliany taveras’s new stage adaptation of a book that has faced challenges and attacks in some schools.
Decentering Doom: A Word From Chicago Theatre Workers
After an outpouring of op-eds bemoaning the state of U.S. theatre, 2 Chicago writers lift up innovative collaborations in their own backyard as examples for the field.
‘Measure Still for Measure,’ With Theatre as Problematic Subject and Star
Director/writer Jessica Kubzansky celebrates the 20th anniversary of Boston Court Pasadena by immersing audiences in a fraught rehearsal process across the entire site.
Making Friends With the Arts and Each Other
A new Wallace-commissioned report looks at various ways arts learning can connect and sustain young people.
Alan Eisenberg (1935-2023)
The longest serving Actors’ Equity Association executive director, he led the union from 1981 to 2006.
People to Watch
A Pennsylvania-based director with a busy season ahead, and a Seattle-based writer and performer with strong point of view and a solo mini-tour.
Spaced Out in Chicago: When Storefront Theatres Run Out of Storefronts
The loss of multi-venue spaces over the last few years has shaken the city’s small theatre scene, leaving some companies searching for new homes.
This Month in Theatre History
October saw Congress vote against theatre, Frederick Douglass inveighing against minstrelsy, a ‘Shuffle Along’ sequel, a gravity-defying musical, and the passing of a genre-defining playwright.
Larissa FastHorse and Ty Defoe Make a Show ‘For the People’
Their new play for the Guthrie is a comedy, in large part because that’s what the Native community in the Twin Cities asked for.
