Tim Robbins Never Blames the Audience
With a 40th anniversary staging of ‘Ubu The King,’ the Actors’ Gang co-founder is revisiting his company’s roots, though he never strayed very far from them in the first place.
Category Archives: Features
A New-Play Fest Is Born in Greenville, S.C.
The latest entry in the new-play festival game, staged in August across 5 venues in an arts-centric town, had impressive local buy-in and enthusiastic full houses.
On Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival
Back in August after a pandemic hiatus, the biennial gathering of Black theatremakers reclaimed its status as both a reunion and a showcase for new work.
How Phyllida Lloyd and Whitney White Make Work Worth Their Time, and Ours
Joined for the Rolex Arts Mentorship program, these 2 directors have a lot of common interests: interrogating Shakespeare, staging music, and welcoming new audiences.
Charles Henry Fuller Jr.: Playwright, Collaborator, Friend
Director Clinton Turner Davis remembers Charles Fuller, the playwright known for ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ which earned the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2020 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
Suzan-Lori Parks: Make Space for the Difficult Things
With 3 world premieres and a Broadway revival of her hit play ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ the prolific writer keeps singing her song in a variety of keys.
Joan Hotchkis: From Actors Studio to the TV Studio, Then to Performance Art
The writer-performer of ‘Tearsheets’ and ‘Elements of Flesh’ left behind a career in TV and film after surviving a brain tumor, turning her focus and activism to the stage.
Dan Sullivan: Friend of Audiences, Mentor of Critics
Theatre critic for the Los Angeles Times for 22 years, and longtime leader of the O’Neill Critics Institute, Sullivan was an old school newspaperman and a tireless teacher of the craft.
Shereen Ahmed, No ‘Ordinary’ Artist
The emerging talent trades in Covent Garden for Northern Ireland with a turn in ‘A Man of No Importance’ and reflects on a few stepping stones in community theatre along the way.
What Is a Non-Binary Play?
Playwright Jonathan Alexandratos reflects on the plethora of joys, pains, ownerships, references, anxieties, comforts, languages, forms, and more to be found in non-binary plays.
