Category Archives: September 2016

Rising From the Ruins: An Opera Brings Healing to Nepal

A cross-cultural opera in Nepal isn’t just building dialogue—it’s also helping to rebuild a quake-ravaged city.

‘Political theatre’ should not be an automatic putdown; both politics and theatre can lie or speak truth, depending on how they’re used.

A season of travel with this year’s presidential candidates proved that democracy is still a live event.

How has this unlikely presidential candidate gotten so far? By setting the stage and giving the performance of a lifetime.

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

A series of short plays about the whole lot features a choose-your-own-president ending, just like in real life.

The actor’s life inspired Joe Iconis, Lance Rubin, and Jason Williams’s new musical, which is running at Barrington Stage Company.