Redmoon Theater Prepares For the First Great Chicago Fire Festival
How a citywide festival took shape from a city’s pain.
Category Archives: Mid Atlantic
Stories from Delaware, Washington, DC, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
Paata Tsikurishvili On Playing the Evil Dr. Moreau
Paata Tsikurishvili on why the evil Dr. Moreau in “The Island of Dr. Moreau” at Synetic Theater, is the perfect role for him.
20 Questions With Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon talks up “The Vaudevillians” at Seattle Rep.
How One Theatre Utilizes Social Groups To Energize The House
Clubbed Thumb in New York City uses “social captains” to get targeted audiences to come to shows.
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Builds A Bridge Between Critics And Artists
AT’s own Suzy Evans went to the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center to discuss the role of critics in theatre and how they view their relationship with artists.
Julia Jarcho and Sibyl Kempson Talk Writing And Jane Bowles
Playwrights Julia Jarcho and Sibyl Kempson discuss how Jane Bowles has influenced their lives and their writing.
Two Theatres Close, Another Reopens
Though the San Jose Repertory Theatre in San Jose and the Prince Music Theatre in Philadelphia are closing, Performance Network Theatre in Ann Arbor reopens under new leadership.
Catherine Filloux’s New Play Honors Victim of Civil Rights Movement
Catherine Filloux’s “Selma ’65,” set to run at La MaMa E.T.C., is about Viola Liuzzo and Tommy Rowe, both of whom were deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.
On the Peculiar Nature of Theatre
The “Apple Family” playwright reflects on theatre’s true calling and purpose—and how, in trying to help it survive, we may have strayed from its essence.
Lear deBessonet: Seeker of Hard-Won Joy
The versatile and busy director talks about her devotion to both art and activism, and how she’s fused the two with Public Works.
