Northlight Theatre Announces Plans for New Home
The theatre company plans to a new theatre in Evanston, Ill.
Arden Theatre Company Announces 2019-20 Season
The lineup includes two musicals by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
Heidi Schreck Wins 2018 Hull-Warriner Award
The Dramatists Guild of America has selected Schreck’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ for the prize.
Three on the Aisle: Nobody Is Ever Pleased With the Tony Nominations
The critics discuss the surprises and snubs of the Tony nominations, plus how to present problematic classics.
Sean Daniels: Phoenix Rising
As he starts a job leading the theatre that changed his life, he wants to return the favor and make some changes there.
Mark Medoff: Communication and Connection
Playwright Mark Medoff, who won the Tony and the Olivier for his play Children of a Lessser God and who taught screenwriting and acting the University of New Mexico for 27 years, died on April 23 at the age of 79. I first met Mark Medoff at an audition. It was at the Mark Taper Forum annex in Los Angeles, and I was reading for him and the director Gordon Davidson, for a role in Mark’s new play, Children of a Lesser God. Though I had…
NY Drama Critics’ Circle Lauds ‘Ferryman,’ ‘Tootsie,’ and ‘Constitution’
Jez Butterworth, Robert Horn, David Yazbek, and Heidi Schreck will be awarded at a private reception later this month.
This Month in Theatre History
From landmark productions of O’Neill, Charles Gordone, Wole Soyinka, and Deborah Rogin to the opening of Michigan’s Farmers Alley Theatre, May has been an eventful month.
The Gender Problem ‘Tootsie’ Can’t Dress Up
The new musical’s creators think they’ve upended the material’s sexist tropes; apparently they don’t see that ‘man in a dress’ jokes are inherently transphobic.
May/June 2019 Onstage
From a funeral home to a London train station, from musical love stories to plays about parenthood, check out what is onstage near you this summer.
