The Big Crunch: Theatre’s Labor and Materials Crisis
Getting audiences to return isn’t the only post-COVID challenge theatres are facing.
Category Archives: Features
6 Theatre Workers You Should Know
From board liaisons and theatre administrators to performers and activists, these 6 folks have brought their talent to Chicago’s stages.
Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, Christopher Moses Named Co-ADs of Alliance Theatre
The theatre’s current interim leaders will now form a partnership—an alliance, if you will—to jointly run Atlanta’s flagship theatre.
John Rubinstein as Eisenhower, a ‘Good Man on Purpose’
In a new solo show, the seasoned actor wrestles with an unassuming president’s legacy, and with the stark disparities between his version of Republican politics and today’s GOP.
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.
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.
