It Opened Doors on TV, But Can ‘Transparent’ Sing Onstage?
How the creators of ‘A Transparent Musical’ have adapted the hit series about a Jewish family’s multiple gender journeys into a stage musical, premiering tonight at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum.
Category Archives: Features
The Creative Ecosystem of ‘Riven,’ a New Play About Recycling
Marina Zurita is the director of this new work about solidarity and struggle among Brazilian waste pickers, but she’s not the piece’s sole author.
Justin Huertas, Theatrical Superhero
The disarming myth-making musical ‘Lizard Boy,’ about to make its NYC debut, is just one of the trails being blazed by this Seattle-based auteur.
How Does the WGA Strike Affect the Theatre? Ask Playwrights
The stakes are high for dramatists used to making most of their income writing for film and TV.
Will Davis at Rattlestick: An Artistic Homecoming
What would take a busy freelance director off the road? The chance to gather and serve communities—especially those who’ve been under-served.
Pattern Recognition, Reconstructed: The Unlikely Return of Fornés’s ‘Evelyn Brown’
A new revival at La MaMa of the playwright’s opaque verbatim play from 1980 gives a fresh window into her unique formal and thematic ambitions.
Deborah Lawlor, the Fountain Theatre’s Guardian Angel
In her life and her work producing theatre and dance in Los Angeles, she never gave less than her all, and we are all the richer for it.
Moisés Kaufman Plays With Form
Both with his Tectonic collaborators and on his own, the playwright-director has always explored the architecture of theatre and its potential social impact.
Tony Nominators: You Missed a Step in Ignoring ‘Dancin’’
The show’s producer makes the case for recognizing non-traditional forms—including dance-driven, non-narrative shows like this—on Broadway.
Further Down the River
As the play-commissioning project Nuestro Planeta turns 1, a writer-director team revisits Colombia and learns of the strength of the Amazon communities.
