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Category Archives: Features
The Deaf Renaissance: Beyond ‘CODA’
As more Deaf actors find space onstage, it’s time to make room for the community behind the scenes: as writers, directors, and producers.
Rattlestick’s Global Forms Theater Fest: A Lifeline for Immigrant Artists
What began as a way for visiting artists to maintain their O-1 visas has grown into a nearly 2-week celebration of international theatre, with over 100 immigrant artists from 34 countries.
Innocence, F-Bombs, and Song: The Balancing Act of ‘The Bedwetter’
Sarah Silverman’s musical memoir, delayed by pandemic and the death of a key collaborator, finally arrives at the Atlantic with its frank, irreverent spirit intact.
The Canon, Reloaded: 3 Playwrights Respond to 20th-Century Classics
In riffing on works by Arthur Miller and Lorraine Hansberry, 3 new plays by Kimberly Belflower, Kelundra Smith, and Eleanor Burgess alternately explore and explode what was missing from the originals.
Patricia McGregor Named Artistic Director of NY Theatre Workshop
A director with bicoastal credits and extensive experience developing new work, she will succeed NYTW’s longtime leader Jim Nicola.
David Mamet and the ‘Stupid F***ing Words’
Like the characters in his language-lacerating work, the Chicago-bred playwright often spoils for a fight, even when the topic isn’t his increasingly conservative politics.
Passing the Torch at Repertorio Español
After 52 years at the influential bilingual theatre, 17 of those at the helm, Robert Federico feels he is leaving Repertorio in good hands with Rafael Sánchez.
In ‘American Jade,’ Jodi Long Traces Her Imprints
At Bucks County Playhouse, the award-winning actor stars in a one-woman show reckoning with the legacy of her showbiz family and the experiences of Asian Americans in the theatre.
Dave Harris and Mansa Ra: Connection, Contention, Community
The writers of ‘Exception to the Rule’ and ‘What the End Will Be,’ both at Roundabout Theatre, talk about their paths from home to work, and possibly back again.
