20 Questions With Michael Urie
American Theatre sat down with the “Ugly Better” star to talk about his new role in Jonathan Tolins’s one-man show, “Buyer & Cellar,” which is now touring around the country.
May/June 2014
‘Shakespeare In America’ Remarks on the Bard’s Role in American Culture and Politics
Was Othello a white man? Some patriotic 19th-century Americans thought so.
‘Song of Spiderman’ Details The Catastrophe Of Broadway Musical ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’
The show’s book co-writer lovingly details the slow-motion train wreck he eagerly climbed aboard.
We’re All in This Together, Right?
How Kansas City Actors Theatre uses a collective ethos to keep its actors and audiences happy
Double Revision: Revisting ‘Side Show’
Director Bill Condon takes a fresh look at Henry Krieger and Bill Russell’s 1997 musical “Side Show” about conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton.
How the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Started With One Man’s Vision
Its organizers nursed it, rehearsed it and gave out the news- this is where American theatre writing can gestate and blossom (if you handle the sturm und drang.)
The Flea Theater Has Big Plans for Its Small-Theatre Aesthetic
Jim Simpson’s Off-Off-Broadway company has broken theatrical ground over the last 17 years. Now it’s broken ground on a new three-theatre space in downtown Manhattan.
Jeanine Tesori Revisits ‘Violet’ As It Makes Its Broadway Debut
Composer Tesori takes a trip down memory lane with ‘Violet.’
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: Feel That Thought
His plays—‘Appropriate,’ ‘An Octoroon,’ ‘Neighbors,’ ‘Gloria,’ ‘War’—are high-wire performances in themselves.
Designing "The Little Prince" at Lookingglass Theatre
How the production team at Lookingglass Theatre conjures a fairy tale using minimal props, aerial effects and window markers.
