Taylor Mac, the TEAM and More Gear Up for NY's Festival January
Under the Radar and the COIL unveil slates of returning favorites, durational experiments, multi-disciplinary ventures and more.
Offscript: The Land of Breakout Songs and Butt Wiggles
It’s the all-Public-Theater edition of Offscript! Senior editor Eliza Bent joins us to discuss Young Jean Lee’s newest show “Straight White Men” at the Public Theater. Then Suzy, Rob and Eliza sound off on “Fortress of Solitude,” also at the Public, and why some musical conventions work sometimes but not others. (We promise next edition of Offscript will be a little less NY-centric.)
Gregory T. Rowe, 1951-2014
People’s Light & Theatre, along with the greater Delaware Valley theatre community, remember Greg Rowe as a passionate advocate for local arts and their patrons.
August Wilson Center Back on Track for Second Act
After a last-minute scare with the bank, the long-troubled Pittsburgh arts center is in the hands of local foundations, with ambitious plans to get it right this time.
Dancer and Choreographer Donald Saddler Dies at 96
The “Wonderful Town” choreographer and Broadway dancer leaves behind a legacy of awards and a fidelity to period movement.
Clare Barron Wins the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award
Barron is the eighth recipient of the Vineyard Theatre award for emerging playwrights.
Joanna Settle's Unsettling Year
She took a new job in a new city, bought a new home—and then got a breast cancer diagnosis. She’s getting by with a little from her friends, including Sam Beckett.
Inside the Exploded Piano of Fiasco Theater's 'Into the Woods'
In a new reimagining of Lapine and Sondheim’s fairy-tale musical, 11 actors play all the roles and all the instruments—and the set itself is an instrument.
Know a Theatre: Creede Repertory Theatre of Creede, Colo.
With two stages and a rotating repertory season, this small mountain-town theatre company specializes in intimate new plays and contemporary revivals.
'Tamburlaine': The Newest Portrait in John Douglas Thompson's Gallery of Great Men
A seldom-produced Elizabethan epic storms a Brooklyn stage, and its lead actor John Douglas Thompson reflects on the value of Marlowe and the universality of the classic roles.
