The Trayvon Factor: Playwrights Respond to the Struggle
Dramas dealing with race and diversity continue to grow in numbers following the George Zimmerman case.
Category Archives: Features
Global Spotlight for December 2013
Global theatre news for this month, from Chile to Norway.
Eddie Dowling Recalls the Fragile Intensity of the First ‘Glass Menagerie’
The original Tom Wingfield in the 1945 premiere of Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play recalls its rocky, bittersweet road to the Broadway stage.
Dominic D’Andrea Takes a Community’s Pulse, a One-Minute Play at a Time
It started as a kind of theatrical dare—what can really be conveyed onstage in 60 seconds? Now its creator takes his “barometer project” on the road.
In Memoriam: Julie Harris
The prolific actress’s passion for the stage took her from Michigan, to New York, to the shores of Cape Cod.
In Memoriam: Jeremy Geidt
Geidt was a founding member of both the Yale Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theater.
A Princess and a Drum
Carlton Leake takes Houston audiences to Africa in his newest holiday show “Djembe and the Forest of Christmas Forgotten” at the Ensemble Theatre.
Willem Dafoe: Tension and Mystery
Whether working with the Wooster Group or Robert Wilson, he sets out to reinvent the process and avoid his “ego agenda.”
Bread and Puppet Theater’s Half-Century Parade of Joy, Anger, Anarchy, and Purpose
An actor toils and performs on Bread and Puppet Theater’s Vermont farm on the eve of the company’s 50th anniversary .
A Critic Revisits a Seminal Moment in Regional Theatre History
The recently retired director of the O’Neill Critics Institute reflects on his time in Minneapolis at the Guthrie’s beginning.
