Barter Theatre’s Plan to Create a Black Appalachian Canon
How one historically white theatre company in Virginia has invested in reaching new audiences, and fostering writers, of color.
Category Archives: Features
6 Theatre Workers You Should Know
From an animatronics professor in North Carolina to a music director in Massachusetts, this installment features six theatre workers shaping arts education.
Ryan J. Haddad, Star of His Own Life
His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, ‘Dark Disabled Stories,’ is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats disabled people.
Why the Fight Over Drag Is a Struggle for Us All
Proposed drag bans aren’t really about drag but about transphobia and homophobia. And they aren’t just threatening marginalized people and their livelihoods—they’re also attacking an art and a form of free expression.
Adrian Hall, American Original
With Eugene Lee, Trinity Rep’s founder leader built a true resident theatre and forged a distinct and visceral aesthetic.
The Theatre That Adrian Hall Built
At Trinity Rep, Hall built a questing, adventurous theatre and brought a company of actors, and Providence audiences, along with him.
White Light, White Heat: ‘Little Foxes’ and ‘Appropriate’ in Rep
South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.
This Month in Theatre History
February recalls the premieres of 2 groundbreaking Black musicals on Broadway, the contentious beginnings of English theatre in the Big Easy, and a little company that could in Pennsylvania.
Roe Is Dead in Texas, But ‘Roe’ Lives in 2 New Stagings There
Lisa Loomer’s play about the historic decision arrives at 2 theatres in a state that’s once again on the front lines of the reproductive rights battle.
‘Sign’ of the Times: Lorraine Hansberry’s 2nd Play Gets 2 New Looks
A forgotten chapter of mid-20th-century theatre history is about to be restored, as ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ is restaged in Seattle and Brooklyn.
