American Folklore Theatre Becomes Northern Sky Theater With 'Strings Attached'
The longtime outdoor theatre in Wisconsin chooses a new name that better reflects its venue and locale.
Category Archives: Features
How the Web Is Changing Musical Theatre
The internet is spreading musical theatre like Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s “Edges” to a wider audience, and allowing small productions to become big hits.
St. Louis’s New Line Theatre Has High Fidelity to New Musicals
Led by Scott Miller, this small theatre revives mostly nontraditional musicals, giving new life to underrated shows and shining new light on contemporary classics.
How Entrepreneurial Artists Are Changing the Face of Opera
L.A. Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, Gotham Chamber Opera, Opera Philadelphia and more show how opera is staying big by going small.
20 Questions With Michael Urie
American Theatre sat down with the “Ugly Better” star to talk about his new role in Jonathan Tolins’s one-man show, “Buyer & Cellar,” which is now touring around the country.
We’re All in This Together, Right?
How Kansas City Actors Theatre uses a collective ethos to keep its actors and audiences happy
Double Revision: Revisting ‘Side Show’
Director Bill Condon takes a fresh look at Henry Krieger and Bill Russell’s 1997 musical “Side Show” about conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton.
How the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Started With One Man’s Vision
Its organizers nursed it, rehearsed it and gave out the news- this is where American theatre writing can gestate and blossom (if you handle the sturm und drang.)
The Flea Theater Has Big Plans for Its Small-Theatre Aesthetic
Jim Simpson’s Off-Off-Broadway company has broken theatrical ground over the last 17 years. Now it’s broken ground on a new three-theatre space in downtown Manhattan.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: Feel That Thought
His plays—‘Appropriate,’ ‘An Octoroon,’ ‘Neighbors,’ ‘Gloria,’ ‘War’—are high-wire performances in themselves.
