Mark Rylance Chisels at His Midwestern Roots in ‘Nice Fish’
One of the world’s great Shakespearean actors reconnects with his youth on a frozen ice lake in his new play.
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.
In seeking to transform the Wilma Theater into a company with its own aesthetic code, its artistic director is rediscovering her own passions as well.
Whether telling her own story or others’, the playwright/performer brings her full presence and the truth of her imagination to the jam.
From flash mobs to Excel spreadsheets, from velvet pipes to meticulous props, this month’s stage folks make it happen.
Playwright Ruby Rae Spiegel speaks with a former teacher and mentor about the gestation of her strikingly honest play about high school friendships.