Meropi Peponides’s Artistic Producing, at Soho Rep and Beyond
As 1 of 3 leaders at the influential NY theatre, she spent the last 4 years helping it realize outsized ambitions, both onstage and on the balance sheet.
Category Archives: People
Peter Brosius Believes That Children Are Our Future
As he enters his last season leading Minneapolis’s Children’s Theatre Company, he reflects on the unique inspiration and value in making work for young people.
Indiana Rep’s Janet Allen, Benjamin Hanna: Staying Power
As IRT’s longest-serving artistic director, Allen has led the company with an eye on the future, and now it’s Hanna’s turn to serve Indiana’s unique Midwestern audience.
Alex Edelman, a Good Boy With Boundaries
In his Broadway show about Jewishness, antisemitism, and whiteness, ‘Just for Us,’ the comic makes audiences ponder who the ‘us’ is.
A Tale of Two Festes
2 trans actors discuss what they’ve found in the role of ‘Twelfth Night’s sad clown, in productions at St. Louis Shakespeare Festival and the Old Globe.
6 Theatre Workers You Should Know
From board liaisons and theatre administrators to performers and activists, these 6 folks have brought their talent to Chicago’s stages.
Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, Christopher Moses Named Co-ADs of Alliance Theatre
The theatre’s current interim leaders will now form a partnership—an alliance, if you will—to jointly run Atlanta’s flagship theatre.
Barbara Gaines: Finding Her Own Dream Time
After 37 years at the helm of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gaines has found the right time to step away from the company she founded.
The Fine and Freshly Urgent Art of Telling Queer Histories Onstage
Travis Russ and Melissa Moschitto talk about the delicate, revealing work of recovering stories of queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks from the last century and before.
They’ve Got the Look: 2 Designers, 7 Broadway Shows
Emilio Sosa and J. Jared Janas compare notes on the costumes, hair, wigs, and makeup they crafted for a wide array of periods and teams this season.
