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Category Archives: Features
It’s Well Past Time for an All-Neurodivergent Staging of ‘Curious Incident’
A look behind the scenes of a new, more accessible student production of the popular play centering an autistic character.
This Month in Theatre History
California gets its first theatre and a grand pageant, a choreographer preserves classic Broadway dance, and an early Paula Vogel work is staged in Canada.
Elizabeth McGovern Wants Us to See the Real Ava Gardner
In ‘Ava: The Secret Conversations,’ McGovern has written a vehicle for herself, as well as a tribute that plumbs the complications of a Golden Age beauty.
‘This Is Why We Tell Stories’: 3 Afro-Latina Playwrights on Their Off-Broadway Debuts
Guadalís Del Carmen, Christin Eve Cato, and Julissa Contreras talk about authenticity, new forms, and making shows for their own community—and their own families.
Macy Schmidt: What Broadway’s Future Sounds Like
Taking the baton into her own hands, the busy orchestrator founded Broadway Sinfonietta not only for her but for other women of color often denied a seat in the orchestra.
The Understudy Opens a New Chapter for Chicago Bookstores
The new bookstore and café aims to fill a niche for theatre-loving readers, book-loving stage folks, and anyone else who’s been missing a sense of community.
Robert Falls: Letting Go of the Goodman
After stepping down from the helm of the Chicago theatre he ran for 36 years, he’s directing—what else?—Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard.’
Dancing Toward Change
With her troupe MorDance, Morgan McEwen aims to treat dancers fairly and change the stories ballet tells, both on- and offstage.
Are You Even Here? Or Are You Just Represented?
2 artists who’ve explored the ways city politics are like theatre wonder: What might theatre learn from city politics?
