Offscript: Seasoning With Frank Rizzo
On this week’s podcast, the Connecticut critic joins the editors to dish about his Q&A with Yale’s James Bundy and the upcoming season.
Category Archives: The Art of Season Planning
For our annual preview of the coming 2017-18 season at theatres across the United States, we’re focusing on leadership, taste, and risk—in other words, on season programming itself.
What’s on the Menu?
For this year’s preview of U.S. theatre’s offerings, we look at the how and why as much as the what.
Extra Seasoning: Artistic Directors Share Their Faves
Whose programs do the programmers admire most? We asked some U.S. theatre leaders and they told us.
Safe Programming Is a Big Risk
Caution may make sense in a crisis, but our long-term missions require us to make bolder choices.
Carey Perloff: Left Coast, Right Time
After a quarter century at the helm of ACT, the classics-minded director/playwright is quitting while she’s ahead.
James Bundy: The Longest Run
His unprecedented tenure at Yale Rep may be topped off (fingers crossed) by a new theatre-and-school complex.
La MaMa Acts Locally, Thinks Globally
How New York City’s landmark avant-garde hub maintains its links across nations and generations.
Take Shakespeare for Granted? He’ll None of It
Our magazine doesn’t include the Bard on its annual most-produced lists, but this year he snuck his way to the top anyway.
The Gender & Period Count: The More Things Change…
Once again, new plays far outnumber revivals and classics—and they’re the only sector in which the playwriting gender gap is narrowing.
5 Artistic Directors in Search of the Perfect Theatre Season
How these leaders put their stamp on long-running theatres they inherited.
