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Category Archives: Theatre History
This Month in Theatre History
Successes for Steppenwolf, Swine Palace, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Sutton Foster.
The Tamiment Connection
How vacations in the Poconos shaped the American musical.
Armageddon in Boston
An artistic director recalls how an iconoclastic theatre took root in recalcitrant soil.
An Unlikely History: From ‘Raisin’ to the Present
The play’s original director, and a panoply of artists and scholars, reflect on the legacy and significance of Hansberry’s groundbreaking play.
Imagining the Greeks
The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?
