Tania Bruguera’s Artist Residency Will Focus on NYC Immigrants
The Cuban performance artists will join city officials in an effort to connect with undocumented immigrants through art.
The Gift Theatre Announces 2016 Season
The storefront theatre features Shakespeare, Steinbeck, and Melissa Ross for an anniversary season on the theme of what it means to be human.
On Darko Tresnjak’s Calendar: More Love, Murder, and Musicals
From obscure classics to populist musicals and thrillers, Hartford Stage artistic director Darko Tresnjak is in the midst of a killer career.
Okwui Okpokwasili to Receive $200,000 Commission from New York Live Arts
Sonya Tayeh and Adrienne Truscott are among the artists-in-residence during Live Arts’s 2015–16 season.
HERE Arts Center Announces a Season of Opera and Outsiders
The PROTOTYPE festival and Hai-Ting Chinn’s ‘Science Fair’ hit the high notes. Also: Yvan Greenberg’s ‘Genet Porno’ and Soomi Kim’s ‘Chang(e).’
Jennifer Holliday, From ‘Dreamgirls’ to ‘Sophisticated Ladies’
She may have moved beyond the big bring-the-curtain-down numbers, but the singer can still bring down the house. Next: ZACH Theatre’s Ellington revue.
Onstage this Week: July 13–20
The dog days of summer mean a batch of classics and musicals, plus a smattering of new plays.
Horrors! The Audience Is Alive!
It is theatre’s blessing and curse that it shares space with all of humanity—even humans with cell phones.
How Lynn Nottage, Inveterate Wanderer, Found Her Way to Reading and ‘Sweat’
The playwright of ‘Ruined’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’ talks about her new play, inspired by America’s ‘de-industrial revolution’ and bowing this month at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
The Infamous iPhone Incident at ‘Hand to God’: Theatre Could Use a Charge Like That
One audience member trying to plug his phone into a Broadway set is not the end of civilization—nor should a ‘why not’ attitude be entirely unwelcome in the theatre.
