The Roundabout Empire Wasn’t Built in a Day
How did a modest Off-Broadway company become America’s biggest nonprofit theatre? Having Todd Haimes at the helm probably didn’t hurt.
Category Archives: People
Life After ‘August’: Tracy Letts and Anna D. Shapiro in Conversation
The playwright and director came up together in Chicago theatre. Now they’re kicking off Shapiro’s Steppenwolf regime with Letts’s ‘Mary Page Marlowe.’
6 Theatre Workers You Should Know
From backstage movers to onstage shakers, from Hawaii to Philly, another half dozen folks to have on your radar.
Bekah Brunstetter Wants You to Feel the Joy
The playwright’s work might deal with weighty subjects, but not so heavy that uplift is out of the question.
What’s This Sneaky Play Up To?
Playwright Christopher Chen talks about the twists and turns in his play ‘Caught.’
Misha’s Next Moves
As if running a Manhattan arts center weren’t enough, Mikhail Baryshnikov has two new solo shows on his dance card.
Lev Dodin Plants Chekhov’s ‘Cherry Orchard’ in the Eternal Present
The master director from St. Petersburg takes some liberties with the playwright’s final work, but the result is somehow all the more Chekhovian.
Lou Diamond Phillips’s ‘Burning Desire’: To Get Back Onstage
The versatile actor makes his playwriting debut with a romantic comedy in which he plays—who else?—the devil.
Southern Rep’s Aimée Hayes, En Avant!
After years without the anchor of a home base, the leader of New Orleans’s preeminent theatre is steering the company to a snug new harbor.
Arkansas’s TheatreSquared: The Middle of Somewhere
Martin Miller and Robert Ford have made their small company a theatrical force in Northwest Arkansas, but it hasn’t happened in a vacuum.
