‘Princess Mary’ Takes Tolstoy for Walk on the Drag Side
Aaron Holland’s new musical expands a minor character from ‘War and Peace’ into an inspiration for a full-blown musical about a modern-day daydreamer.
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Can I Get a Yippie?
In ‘Steal Heaven’ at San Diego REP, Herbert Siguenza imagines what ’60s icon Abbie Hoffman would think of our iPhone-and-drone age.
One Ticket, All Admission at the Southern Theater
The Minneapolis presenter tries a membership model for offerings by its 15 resident companies. Netflix for the theatre, anyone?
Our Favorite Things: The Year in American Theatre
Twelve-hour Greek plays, white face, drag queens, gender parity…the contributors and editors of “American Theatre” reminisce on what they loved most in the theatre in 2014.
Onstage This Week: Dec. 29-Jan. 5
A few holiday leftovers linger, but the New Year ushers in both sobering drama and fairy-tale whimsy, musical excursions and comic dances with death.
The Facts on the Ground at Theater J
The backstage drama between D.C.’s influential Jewish theatre and its former artistic director Ari Roth has been as riveting, and as disputed, as anything on its stage.
101 Costume Changes at Imagination Stage’s ‘101 Dalmatians’
An eight-foot-tall puppet Cruella de Vil and mod hair anchor Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Imagination Stage’s coproduction of ‘101 Dalmatians.’
3 Enchanting Versions of ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Artists at Arden Theatre, Synetic Theater and Theatre Britain talk putting an original, non-Disney spin on “Beauty and the Beast.”
PS122’s Vallejo Gantner Brings the World to NY, and Vice Versa
As he gears up for another festival January, the downtown impresario weighs in on a busy and changing scene.
Artists and A.D. React to Closure of Actors Theatre of Phoenix
The closure of the 29-year-old Arizona company leaves a significant artistic and financial hole in the local theatre ecology.
