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.
Category Archives: Features
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.
When Lynne Met Barry: The Story of Manhattan Theatre Club
The company’s 5-decade journey from Off-Off-Broadway outlier to Broadway powerhouse has been steered all along by the same 2 leaders.
Do We Not Laugh? Revising ‘The Complete Works’ for 2023
A comic theatre staple that originated at the ’87 Edinburgh Fringe, this speed-Shakespeare romp has gotten a new revision for the age of #MeToo and #Black Lives Matter.
Stephanie Ybarra: Change Is Going to Win
The departing leader of Baltimore Center Stage talks about the challenges the theatre field is facing, and about the changes she was able to make to address them.
What The Welders 3.0 Have Wrought
The current and outgoing cohort of the D.C. playwriting collective reflect on 3 years of pandemic pivot, internal strain, and transformative growth.
This Month in Theatre History
From a famous British mimic’s take on American types to the development of Asian American work the West Coast, the month is packed with noteworthy developments.
Theatre Is No Longer Therapy for Taylor Mac
For the versatile playwright-performer, whose ‘Joy and Pandemic’ is up at the Huntington, writing is a way to understand themself and the world.
