Joseph Haj to Succeed Joe Dowling as Guthrie Theater Artistic Director
To replace its longtime a.d., the venerable Minneapolis company taps an actor/director with a wide-ranging—you might even say ‘diverse’—history in U.S. resident theatres.
Category Archives: Nationwide
Stories with a national scope.
Know a Theatre: Riverside Theatre of Iowa City, Iowa
A small, smart venue in a small, smart Iowa town keeps its eye on national trends and tends toward new, often challenging plays.
Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry Reflect on the Legacy of ‘Parade’
As their 1998 musical about a lynching in the South readies for a Lincoln Center concert, the composer/lyricist and playwright recall its origins and its import.
Onstage This Week: Feb. 16-23
Love and luck, death and disease, real estate and unreal states are some of the themes of the week on U.S. stages.
Arizona Theatre Company Announces 2015–16 Season
Hershey Felder, Ayad Akhtar and Stephen Schwartz are some of the names on tap for the theatre’s new season.
How the Colorado New Play Summit Went From Local Gem to National Event
How Denver Center Theatre Company artistic director Kent Thompson turned Denver into a must-see stop for new-play development with the Colorado New Play Summit.
Arena Stage Slates Premieres, 1 Broadway-Bound Musical
Among a group of new plays, imports and revivals, the D.C. theatre’s next season includes two shows set amid its hometown political scene.
‘An American in Paris,’ Back From an Out-of-Town Tryout in—Where Else?—Paris
How a Gershwin classic went from the concert hall to the cinema, and from Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet to Broadway.
‘The Second Girl’ Shows the Other Side of O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey’
The design team of ‘The Second Girl’ at Huntington Theatre Company go hyper-realistic, creating a real working kitchen, where the cast members could clean, iron and cook a real chicken
The Civilians Uncover the Craft and Humanity of Porn in ‘Pretty Filthy’
Director Steve Cosson explains how his troupe’s new show fits into a tradition of backstage musicals—and not just because of the crescendos and climaxes.
