Adam Szymkowicz, a Regular at ‘Clown Bar’
While his play about gangster clowns surfs the immersive-theatre wave, the well-known blogging playwright has other tricks up his sleeve.
10 Troupes Who’ve Been to ‘The Mountaintop’
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, here are 10 notable recent productions of Katori Hall’s oft-produced two-hander.
Onstage This Week: Jan. 19-26
From the fanciful to the profound, and all points in between—including the fanciful and profound, i.e., Gertrude Stein—this week onstage boasts as wide a range of authors, genres and theatre sizes as we’ve seen in a long while.
Kenneth Jones Tells an ‘Alabama Story’ of Race and Censorship
A real-life controversy about a children’s book from 1959 is the basis for a new play with freshly relevant themes.
Katori Hall’s Raptures of the Spirit in ‘Our Lady of Kibeho’
The author of ‘The Mountaintop’ talks about the inspiration and research for her new play, based on a true story from Rwanda.
Top of the Pods
Festivals in New York, story slams in Chicago, theme parks in SoCal—call it a tricoastal edition.
Jonathan Moscone to Leave Cal Shakes Artistic Director Post
The longtime artistic director will step down in August after 15 years at the helm of one of California’s largest Shakespeare theatres.
Into the Polish Woods with Cutting Ball and Teatr ZAR
How a bi-national production of ‘Antigone’ took shape in remote Brzezinka, where Grotowkski’s animating spirit still holds sway.
8 Bay Area Performers Who Journeyed Into Grotowski’s Woods
The ensemble of Cutting Ball’s ‘Antigone’ ranged widely in age and experience, but their intensive work in Brzezinka fused them into an ensemble.
Teatr ZAR’s Jaroslaw Fret, Feeling the Heat but Not Fretting
Mounting and touring an acclaimed new work about the Armenian genocide, ‘Armine, Sister,’ isn’t even the biggest controversy swirling around the Polish director.
