Remembrance and Resistance in ‘Rutka’
The musical adaptation of ‘Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust’ is currently having its world premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
Category Archives: Features
Elizabeth Marvel, Hearing the Voices of America
In the new docu-theatre piece ‘The Ford/Hill Project,’ the words of Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill—and their interrogators—live again onstage.
The Sound of Hysteria
Deaf and hearing artists are looking for the timeless rage in a new staging of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot,’ a collaboration between Deaf West Theatre and Center Theatre Group.
A Eulogical Elegy With Rhyming Ululations in Remembrance of Ken Page
A tribute from one seeker-clown to another.
A Stripped-Down ‘Streetcar’ Rolls West
A new 4-actor version of Williams’s classic, which played last year at alternative NYC spaces, is headed for L.A., then Yale.
And I Think to Myself: How ‘A Wonderful World’ Made Its Way to Broadway
The book writer for the new Louis Armstrong musical reflects on the show’s winding path through years of Covid, 3 cities, and countless rewrites.
People to Watch: L. Nyrobi Moss
The Atlanta costume designer discusses the art and people who have helped shape her into the artist she is today.
People to Watch: Katie Forgette
With her new play set to open in her hometown, the Seattle playwright discusses how her play engages with Arthur Miller’s work and her dream collaborations.
This Month in Theatre History
Bookended with plays by Black women writers across the span of a century, this month’s survey includes the founding of an influential political theatre, a path-breaking First Nations narrative, and more.
The Subtext: Rachel Jendrzejewski on Presence, Poland, and Padua
This month Brian speaks with the Playwrights’ Center core writer and co-artistic director of Minneapolis’s Red Eye about chance encounters and her relationship to future thinking.
