Spectrum Theatre Ensemble’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Ethos
This Rhode Island company is both fostering new work by neurodiverse artists and creating new guidelines for the inclusion of neurodiverse audiences.
Category Archives: Features
The Rise and Fall of ‘KPOP’
Why is this groundbreaking Broadway musical closing so soon? The tale of its creation, evolution, marketing, and critical reception offers plenty of clues—and some glimmers of hope.
The ‘Little Theatre’ and Big Personality That Made Justin Tanner a Playwright
Through much of the 1990s, Diana Gibson’s Cast Theatre in Hollywood was Tanner’s personal playhouse, but a new play peeks backstage at the hidden costs of that odd arrangement.
‘Theater of the Mind,’ Sure, But How About a Theatre Accessible for All Bodies?
More than just an immersive show about the senses, the new David Byrne/Mala Gaonkar experience in Denver has been built for folks of all sensory abilities.
Josefina López: The Arts Can’t Be Left to the Privileged
The ‘Real Women Have Curves’ playwright talks about ‘Remembering Boyle Heights,’ a new ensemble-devised play collecting the stories of her L.A. community.
This Month in Theatre History
December brought the premieres of a powerful Pulitzer-winning drama, a Yiddish play by a prolific Jewish playwright, and a docudrama about a flashpoint in U.S. history.
Why New Plays Now? A Case for Supporting the Unimaginable
One of the nation’s most prolific living playwrights celebrates the theatre that has sustained him, and asks that it recommit to, and expand, its support for new work.
Rage, Fear, and Dreams in ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’
Writer Sarah Ruhl and director Rebecca Taichman talk about how they’re crafting ‘Becky Nurse of Salem,’ a new play about witches and women’s power.
Michael Feingold: A Life in Review
In his lifelong affair with the theatre, he could be a possessive, even jealous lover, but both his intellectual acuity and his abundant humanity shone through all his writing.
How Megan Terry and Jo Ann Schmidman Made Magic in Omaha
How 2 veterans of New York’s 1960s-’70s avant-garde theatre made edgy, alternative theatre in a conservative state, and what enduring lessons their example may hold out for others.
