How Far Can ‘Run Bambi Run’ Run?
With a book by Eric Simonson and songs by the Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano, Milwaukee Rep brings a legendary true crime saga to the city where it began.
Category Archives: Previews
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.
‘Flex’: Taking the Lady Train From the Arkansas Delta to Lincoln Center
Candrice Jones’s new play about a Southern girls’ basketball team has come a long way, but it hasn’t been a layup.
Jack Serio: Direction and Misdirection
With just a handful of artfully stripped-down productions, the young director has blazed a distinctive path and attracted heavy-hitting casts. His next: an intimate ‘Uncle Vanya.’
It’s Not Just ‘Another Marriage’ for Kate Arrington
With her playwriting debut, the Steppenwolf ensemble member explores what happens after most stories end.
It Opened Doors on TV, But Can ‘Transparent’ Sing Onstage?
How the creators of ‘A Transparent Musical’ have adapted the hit series about a Jewish family’s multiple gender journeys into a stage musical, premiering tonight at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum.
The Creative Ecosystem of ‘Riven,’ a New Play About Recycling
Marina Zurita is the director of this new work about solidarity and struggle among Brazilian waste pickers, but she’s not the piece’s sole author.
It’s Well Past Time for an All-Neurodivergent Staging of ‘Curious Incident’
A look behind the scenes of a new, more accessible student production of the popular play centering an autistic character.
‘Sign’ of the Times: Lorraine Hansberry’s 2nd Play Gets 2 New Looks
A forgotten chapter of mid-20th-century theatre history is about to be restored, as ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ is restaged in Seattle and Brooklyn.
2 Artists at the Top of Their ‘Endgame’
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson, who first bonded in a Public staging of ‘King Lear,’ confront the opacity, playfulness, and unavoidable bleakness of another master, Beckett.
