Category Archives: Production Notebook

A deep dive behind the scenes of a production, from rehearsal to reviews.

The Line in the Sand: How ‘Sneetches’ Spoke to a Divisive Moment

At Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Dr. Seuss’s ‘The Sneetches: The Musical’ offered a prescient tale of discrimination and acceptance.

To respond to Ferguson and the issues it raised, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis sent Dael Orlandersmith on a one-woman listening tour.

How the Pasadena company’s staging of Molière’s choppy late play found its shape, from its wigs on down to its bodily fluids.

Alice Childress’s seldom-produced interracial love story, though set a century ago, gave off fresh sparks at the Intiman.

How this West Virginia new-play fest builds and rides an annual new-play repertory carousel.

Gabrielle Reisman unearths up-to-the-minute issues—and some comic gold—in her time-hopping play about the Johnstown Flood.

Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater scored an election-year win with a play about Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.

Actors Theatre of Louisville brought ordinary reality to new heights in Ruhl’s latest play, which is a tribute to her mother.

Salt Lake Acting Company teamed up with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory and the Red Fred Project to stage a young boy’s book.

Play’s the thing in creating theatre for toddlers, as this Omaha company learned in staging a gentle, rangy poetry anthology.