Charles Fuller: Write Without Fear or You’re Wasting Time
Though his 1982 hit ‘A Soldier’s Play’ is now on Broadway, its writer’s only real ambition has been to tell the truth about people he’d never seen onstage.
Category Archives: People
A B-Boy at Yale
Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
What Is the Question?
Watching and helping John Guare build his plays inspired his erstwhile assistant to do the same.
Julia Jarcho Appointed Head of MFA Playwriting at Brown
The downtown playwright and theatremaker talks about her aesthetic and DIY work ethic, and how much of each she’ll bring to her new post.
Ken Ludwig’s Love Letter to His Pen-Pal Parents
The comic playwright’s new play ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ is based on his parents’ WWII courtship by mail.
Meghan Pressman: In With the New
The first woman to manage the $55 million Center Theatre Group offers tips on how to raise money for innovation.
Fefu’s Friends, Old and New
Artists behind the 1977 premiere of María Irene Fornés’s groundbreaking play compare notes with artists from a new revival.
In ‘For Colored Girls….’, Adrienne C. Moore Has Come Full Circle
The ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actress, who once used a Ntozake Shange monologue as her go-to audition piece, is now starring in the Public Theater revival.
Lifetime Achievements
What can we learn from those who came before us? Things we will one day pass on.
André De Shields, Theatre God
The Broadway veteran, still kicking in ‘Hadestown,’ has blazed a path so that others may follow.
