Why Leave Tokyo for Toga? To Work Consistently, and Consciously, From the Margins
In an excerpt from a major new collection of his writings, the theatre visionary reveals how a sense of place has informed his work and his worldview.
Category Archives: July/August 2015
Staging a Play, on a Smartphone, on the Staten Island Ferry
For just $2, an audience member can download a play to their phone, hop on board, and have a personal theatrical experience.
Son House Is in the House for Geva Theatre Center ‘Revival’
A blues legend who lived in Rochester, N.Y., for 20 of his quieter years is the subject of a citywide celebration and a new play by Keith Glover.
This Month in Theatre History
From the first plays staged and written on the continent to the founding of Woolly Mammoth and the O’Neill.
A Nationwide Menagerie of Tennessee Williams Festivals
From Provincetown to New Orleans, Williams fests cover a wide range of the playwright’s works and influences.
Editor’s Note: The Puppet Moment
There’s no great mystery why they’re so popular, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a mystique, and plenty of mystery worth exploring, about puppets.
WTF Is Happening in Philadelphia
Sisters are doing it for themselves in the city of brotherly love with a new women’s theatre festival.
Jennifer Holliday, From ‘Dreamgirls’ to ‘Sophisticated Ladies’
She may have moved beyond the big bring-the-curtain-down numbers, but the singer can still bring down the house. Next: ZACH Theatre’s Ellington revue.
How Lynn Nottage, Inveterate Wanderer, Found Her Way to Reading and ‘Sweat’
The playwright of ‘Ruined’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’ talks about her new play, inspired by America’s ‘de-industrial revolution’ and bowing this month at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
The Future of the Past in Jordan Harrison’s ‘Marjorie Prime’
A new play about loss and memory contemplates a world full of eternal afterimages—‘primes’—that can learn to look and act like us. But how will they feel?
