’10 Out of 12′: How the Other Half Techs
Anne Washburn’s new play at Soho Rep, about a troubled tech rehearsal, puts a fictional backstage crew and the show’s real backstage crew into a new kind of dialogue.
Previews
Rough Writers Festival Take Cues From Georgia O’Keeffe’s Paintings
In conjunction with a touring exhibit of the painter’s works, eight new plays inspired by her art are on offer—including one by a distant relative.
Regina Taylor’s ‘stop.reset.’ Gives the Goodman Something to Tweet About
The author’s new play about the advance of technology offers tweet seats, an interactive hallway entrance and a microsite.
Rules of Clubbed Thumb: Funny, Strange, Provocative—and Fast
The troupe’s 20th Summerworks festival, featuring plays by Jerry Lieblich, Kate E. Ryan and Jaclyn Backhaus, showcases both its downtown aesthetics and its experimental work ethic.
‘Zombie: The American’ Occupies the White House
Robert O’Hara’s new play for Woolly Mammoth mixes Jacobean drama with political satire and the zombie apocalypse to make a statement about the undead way we live now.
With ‘Paper Planet’ and the Toddler Takeover, the Playscape’s the Thing
At a three-day festival led by the Alliance Theatre, and in an Aussie import at the New Victory Theatre, theatre for the very young is growing up fast.
‘Black and Blue’ Brings the Ferguson Moment Back Home
Ten months after the killing of Michael Brown, playwright Lee Patton Chiles conjures voices from the struggle on a nearby stage.
A Tour of Alfred Jarry’s Warped Mental Landscape, Crocodiles and All
Spooky Action Theater’s ‘Jarry Inside Out’ imagines the strange afterlife of the brain behind ‘Ubu Roi.’
Comedy and Politics, Strange Bedfellows in Yussef El Guindi’s ‘Threesome’
Eygptian-American playwright’s characters lower their guard on serious issues after first losing some clothes and inhibitions.
Joe Iconis, Back at the Intersection of Young and Awkward in ‘Be More Chill’
A new musical based on Ned Vizzini’s young-adult novel follows a high schooler jonesing for chill pill, literally.
