Festival Roundup Part Deux: Not Our First Rodeo
It wasn’t quite the season of our discontent, but this year’s January festivals felt a bit less binge-able than usual, despite the high points.
Opinion
Free to Be: A Diary From Women’s Prison
What am I learning while doing time, apart from mopping the gym? I’m getting to know people in transition.
What One Show Can Carry: William Kentridge’s ‘The Head and the Load’
To honor the million-plus Black Africans who died in World War I, the South African artist uses opera, theatre, dance, video, and a dose of Dada.
All ‘The Season’ in a Day: Reading Goldman to Say Goodbye
You can’t just dip into the best, most compulsively readable book ever written about the art and sweat of making theatre (though you may skip a few parts).
Everything’s Different, Nothing’s Changed: ‘Company’ With a Female Bobbie
By flipping a few genders, Marianne Elliott’s new London revival turns Sondheim and Furth’s classic into a meditation on modern relationships.
‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ and the Female Storyteller
In her boundary-breaking, civically engaged play, Heidi Schreck shows that a woman telling her story is a political, and powerful, act
High Tide of Heartbreak
Has theatre wounded me as much as or more than it’s healed me?
What Equity Is Doing to Prevent Harassment, and How You Can Help
It’s time to answer some common questions about the union’s role and responsibility in the age of #MeToo.
‘Oklahoma!,’ Still Okay?
Two new revivals—one ebulliently LGBTQ, another brooding and immersive—make this musical warhorse run in new directions.
The Shaw Festival’s Welcome Wagon
Under a.d. Tim Carroll, Niagara-on-the-Lake’s company honors its namesake with new work, complementary programming, and even—zounds!—a Shakespeare.
