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.
Category Archives: Features
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.’
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.
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.
