Know a Theatre: Classical Theatre of Harlem
Its fresh contemporary takes on Shakespeare, the Greeks, and others have become a staple of NYC’s summer season, but the company has bigger plans.
Category Archives: Features
Can a Live Video Game Connect ‘Dot’s’ to Real-Life Housing Activism?
A Host of People is joining forces with Detroit Action to dramatize the legacy of housing discrimination in a participatory, collective setting.
Barbara Gaines: Finding Her Own Dream Time
After 37 years at the helm of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gaines has found the right time to step away from the company she founded.
The Fine and Freshly Urgent Art of Telling Queer Histories Onstage
Travis Russ and Melissa Moschitto talk about the delicate, revealing work of recovering stories of queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks from the last century and before.
A Composer/Singer Collaboration That’s in the Show’s DNA
Madeline Myers has written the new musical ‘Double Helix’ with and for its lead performer, Samantha Massell, who plays a woman scientist unjustly neglected by history.
Pasadena Playhouse, Where a National Nod Validates a Local Mission
What does winning the Regional Theatre Tony mean for the 106-year-old theatre? For artistic director Danny Feldman, it’s a sign that the often struggling theatre is on the right track.
They’ve Got the Look: 2 Designers, 7 Broadway Shows
Emilio Sosa and J. Jared Janas compare notes on the costumes, hair, wigs, and makeup they crafted for a wide array of periods and teams this season.
This Month in Theatre History
This month a famous cross-dressing performer finds love and success in her farewell tour, 2 new theatres are inaugurated, history is made at the Tony Awards, and an original musical gives voice to one of the first out trans U.S. mayors.
Go-To Character Actor John Beasley Lived His Purpose
A latecomer to acting, he had a rich, varied, decades-long career onstage and on screen, not only as a performer but as a mentor, teacher, and leader.
No Sondheim Is Alone: 3 Directors on His First Posthumous Revivals
Lear deBessonet, Maria Friedman, and Tommy Kail compare notes on staging ‘Into the Woods,’ ‘Sweeney Todd,’ and ‘Merrily We Roll Along.’
