Eric Bentley: The Thinker as Critic
The eminent critic looks back on a career, and a century, of high hopes and pitched battles.
The eminent critic looks back on a career, and a century, of high hopes and pitched battles.
As the new artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, she is focusing on new plays, diversity, community, and the future.
Actor. Playwright. Activist. Zombie slayer. Is there anything she can’t do?
The managing director of the Louisville theatre talks about what she’s learned and where she’s going in Minneapolis.
One of the world’s great Shakespearean actors reconnects with his youth on a frozen ice lake in his new play.
The protean auteur makes a kind of puppet theatre in which his own intense, mercurial presence is the central object being manipulated.
The ‘Office’ star has wanted to tackle Will Eno’s breakthrough monologue for a decade, and Geffen Playhouse had an open slot. Is he ready to get shouted at?
From a daring director to a tag team of designers, from San Francisco to Atlanta, this month’s cohort of theatre people are making their mark.
She may have hoped to write a comfy play about the vagaries of menopause and after, but, in her art as in her life, she couldn’t take the easy way.
The playwright wants to be a griot for her hometown of Detroit and beyond.