
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate in ‘The Good Book’
After taking on Homer with ‘An Iliad,’ Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare tackle the Bible for Chicago’s Court Theater—and find that the Scriptures can give as good as they get.
After taking on Homer with ‘An Iliad,’ Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare tackle the Bible for Chicago’s Court Theater—and find that the Scriptures can give as good as they get.
Families both fictive and real, and our alternately shared and shirked responsibility to our fellow humans, related or not, are among the themes highlighted this week onstage.
The Pennsylvania theatre includes dramas by Laura Schellhardt and Zak Berkman, a new Musketeers musical, a Jane Austen adaptation and more.
The New Jersey musical-theater company plans premieres of ‘A Bronx Tale’ and ‘Bandstand’ and revivals of ‘Pump Boys’ and ‘West Side Story.’
A Chicago troupe explores a new way to build short-play festivals around a theme: taking inspiration from seminal rock albums.
Tina Packer tracks the Bard’s growth via his female characters, and James Grissom tracks down divas who alternately inspired and frustrated Williams.
Director Chuck Smith curates an August Wilson Celebration, with readings of all 10 of the Century Cycle plays and little-heard Wilson poetry.
Her new play unfolds like a detective story, which is only fitting, since the playwright doesn’t map out her work but discovers it as she writes.
The songwriters of the Disney film join playwright Peter Parnell to reenvision the story as a tale of lust and deformity.
Births, deaths, debuts and bans of bygone Marches.