Voces y Votos
With apt new comedies programmed around election seasons, theatre companies have been complicating audience notions of the Latine vote and community.
Category Archives: Features
Me and Mr. Jones
A longtime admirer and colleague remembers the man and the questions that drove his work.
Know a Theatre: People’s Light of Malvern, Pa.
Now in its 50th year, this Pennsylvania theatre has strong local roots as well as a national profile.
How ‘Coconut Cake’ Is Being Served at 5 Black Theatres
A rolling premiere award run out of the International Black Theatre Festival is having success with a flexible approach to commissioning and co-production.
Coffee Chronicles
A playwright travels to his parents’ home country and plants the seeds for a new play with Hero Theatre’s Nuestro Planeta project.
Perfect Prop Pie
What theatres are cooking up for ‘Waitress,’ the Sara Bareilles/Jessie Nelson musical that’s popping up at several theatres in the coming season.
Bringing New Harmony to Indy’s Inaugural PlayFest
The New Harmony Project’s new-play festival seeks to stamp Indianapolis’s place on the new-work development map.
This Month in Theatre History
September is full of actors making their mark, from the downfall of a 19th-century working-class icon to one actor’s celebrated recreation of a Jazz Age star.
Bruce E.H. Johnson: A Persistent, Eloquent 1st Amendment Defender
The Seattle-based lawyer, who served on local and national theatre boards for decades, also fought pro bono for embattled theatres and artists.
Baltimore Theatres Go All In on August Wilson
Over the next 3 years at 10 Charm City venues, the playwright’s entire American Century Cycle will unfold in chronological order.
