‘Shockheaded Peter’ Gets a Steampunk-Rock Makeover at Company One
The Army of Broken Toys revive, and reorchestrate, the creepy Tiger Lillies musical. It’s still not for kids—and it’s louder (you can sample some exclusive tracks, below).
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Strawdog Travels ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’
How do you adapt an underwater epic for the stage? Very carefully, say adaptors Ann Sonneville and Clint Sheffer.
Beth Henley Takes a ‘Laugh’ Break
After penning a dark, intense family drama, the Mississippi-born playwright started watching old silent comedies. The result: a frothy, flowery farce.
The Goodman Theatre Claims a Piece of August Wilson’s Ground
Director Chuck Smith curates an August Wilson Celebration, with readings of all 10 of the Century Cycle plays and little-heard Wilson poetry.
Bathsheba Doran, On the Trail of ‘The Mystery of Love & Sex’
Her new play unfolds like a detective story, which is only fitting, since the playwright doesn’t map out her work but discovers it as she writes.
Reanimating ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ for the Stage, and Keeping It Dark
The songwriters of the Disney film join playwright Peter Parnell to reenvision the story as a tale of lust and deformity.
Love, Sex, Death and Classical Music Overlap in ‘Fugue’
Tommy Smith’s new play at the Echo Theater Company moves along 3 tracks as it follows 3 great classical musicians and their chaotic love lives.
Heavy-Hitting ‘Hammer Trilogy’ Envisioned as an American King Arthur Myth
Fantasy and mythology cross-breed with early American history in Nathan Allen’s ambitious three-play series, now at last running in repertory.
Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry Reflect on the Legacy of ‘Parade’
As their 1998 musical about a lynching in the South readies for a Lincoln Center concert, the composer/lyricist and playwright recall its origins and its import.
‘An American in Paris,’ Back From an Out-of-Town Tryout in—Where Else?—Paris
How a Gershwin classic went from the concert hall to the cinema, and from Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet to Broadway.
