Qween Jean: Leading With Love in a Time of Awakening
For this New York City-based costume designer and trans activist, artistry and protest are intertwined.
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People to Watch
A Pennsylvania-based director with a busy season ahead, and a Seattle-based writer and performer with strong point of view and a solo mini-tour.
Charlique Rolle: Building the Community Black Artists Deserve
As the Congo Square executive director dons a new leadership hat for the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago, she’s centering community and the needs of Chicago’s Black artists.
Directors’ Choice: A Talk With Dmitry Krymov and Anne Bogart
At La MaMa last spring, the two directors gathered to talk about actors, audiences, censorship, dislocation, and the haven of the rehearsal room.
Russians Beyond Compassion in Andriy Bondarenko’s ‘Ghost Land’
In a triptych of plays, now onstage in Santa Monica, Calif., the Ukrainian playwright responds with ferocity to the invasion of his country.
Nathan Alan Davis Goes Into the Woods
The fourth of this prolific playwright’s 2023 premieres, ‘The Refuge Plays,’ is also his most ambitious and searching.
Rachel Bloom Misses Herself
In her new Off-Broadway piece ‘Death, Let Me Do My Show,’ the actor-writer-songwriter frankly and funnily revisits the traumas and joys of the past 4 years.
Martin Miller: From the Ozarks to the Turnpike
The former executive director of Arkansas’s TheatreSquared has just taken the same job at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center, and he’s ready to open the gates.
Martine Kei Green-Rogers: Using Questions for Good
Green-Rogers brings a dramaturgical approach to leadership roles at The Theatre School at DePaul and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Schele Williams, the Directing Whiz Behind the New ‘Wiz’ and ‘Aida’
This passionate director, once a performer in ‘Aida,’ returns at the helm of a revised production, as well as of ‘The Wiz,’ bound for Broadway and a new generation.
