Why Is Susan Lieu Self-Funding a 10-City Tour?
In telling the story of her mother, who died under a careless plastic surgeon’s knife, she hopes to illuminate both grief and injustice.
Category Archives: Previews
Want to Do Audience Development? Try Some Scare Tactics
How bloodsucking vampires, headless horsemen, and ghostly encounters are bringing new patrons to theatres around the country.
‘Between the World and Me,’ Onstage at the Apollo
The longtime Harlem institution is remounting its adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book and taking it on tour.
‘Molly Sweeney’ Through New Eyes
Keen Company’s new production of Brian Friel’s 1994 play reckons with its views of blindness and female bodily autonomy.
Is This a Spatula I See Before Me? ‘Scotland, PA’ Serves Up a Diner ‘Macbeth’
Order up! Roundabout’s first musical commission resets the Scottish play in a burger joint.
JoAnne Akalaitis Bears ‘Bad News!’
The visionary director returns to the stage with timely messages from the Greeks.
A Team Effort to Put ‘Toni Stone’ Up to Bat
Lydia R. Diamond’s new play is set on the diamond, telling the hard-hitting story of the first female pro baseball player.
Big Ups for Jordan Downs: Cornerstone Memorializes a Watts Housing Project
In ‘A Jordan Downs Illumination,’ the company returns to South L.A. to find a community changed and still changing.
Nevertheless She Persisted (And She Sings)
Chelsea Clinton’s characters leap from page to stage in the world premiere of ‘She Persisted, the Musical’ at Bay Area Children’s Theatre.
Newtown and Parkland, Linked by Tragedy and a Healing ‘Midsummer’
A musical version of the Shakespeare play, created in the wake of one school shooting, will get a staging in a community still mourning their own loss.
