Barbara Gaines: Finding Her Own Dream Time
After 37 years at the helm of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gaines has found the right time to step away from the company she founded.
Category Archives: Interviews
The Fine and Freshly Urgent Art of Telling Queer Histories Onstage
Travis Russ and Melissa Moschitto talk about the delicate, revealing work of recovering stories of queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks from the last century and before.
They’ve Got the Look: 2 Designers, 7 Broadway Shows
Emilio Sosa and J. Jared Janas compare notes on the costumes, hair, wigs, and makeup they crafted for a wide array of periods and teams this season.
No Sondheim Is Alone: 3 Directors on His First Posthumous Revivals
Lear deBessonet, Maria Friedman, and Tommy Kail compare notes on staging ‘Into the Woods,’ ‘Sweeney Todd,’ and ‘Merrily We Roll Along.’
Will Davis at Rattlestick: An Artistic Homecoming
What would take a busy freelance director off the road? The chance to gather and serve communities—especially those who’ve been under-served.
Moisés Kaufman Plays With Form
Both with his Tectonic collaborators and on his own, the playwright-director has always explored the architecture of theatre and its potential social impact.
When Lynne Met Barry: The Story of Manhattan Theatre Club
The company’s 5-decade journey from Off-Off-Broadway outlier to Broadway powerhouse has been steered all along by the same 2 leaders.
Stephanie Ybarra: Change Is Going to Win
The departing leader of Baltimore Center Stage talks about the challenges the theatre field is facing, and about the changes she was able to make to address them.
Theatre Is No Longer Therapy for Taylor Mac
For the versatile playwright-performer, whose ‘Joy and Pandemic’ is up at the Huntington, writing is a way to understand themself and the world.
David Lindsay-Abaire’s Working-Class Women
The playwright of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Good People’ reflects on a body of work that has evolved in style but can’t help but show his roots.
