Digesting the Mega-Play
A full plate at Humana’s all-you-can-see new-play buffet.
Category Archives: Features
Armistead Maupin & Jeff Whitty: Telling ‘Tales’
Their much-anticipated ‘Tales of the City’ musical will debut—where else?—in San Francisco.
Sandy Harper’s Northern Lights
On the stage she and her husband founded, Alaskan artists and themes are right at home.
The Singular Laura Eason
How the many facets of one theatre artist—adaptor, actor, artistic director—have forged a major playwriting voice.
In the Beginning Was the Body
From Lecoq and Laban to Michael Chekhov and Suzuki, U.S. movement training derives its strength and purpose from abroad.
In Search of Stillness
Capturing the purity and energy of not moving is the roof of the invisible body.
Moved to Silence
A good mime, asserted the late Marcel Marceau, trains to be an athlete of the heart.
Actors on the Move
Ten performers analyze the training regimens that animate them on stage.
Let’s Get Physical: What’s Happening Now?
U.S. movement teachers prefer either a hybrid or an integration of disciplines in the service of training the actor’s body.
Joseph Stein (1912-2010), Jerry Bock (1928-2010)
Memories of 2 men who infused ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ with their own smiling, brilliant personalities.
