Ari Roth Let Go From Theater J
The longtime artistic director has been let go from Theater J, due to programming conflicts between the theatre and the DC Jewish Community Center.
The longtime artistic director has been let go from Theater J, due to programming conflicts between the theatre and the DC Jewish Community Center.
For the theatre fan in your life (or in your mirror), here are bios, books, cast albums, DVDs and other stocking-stuffer ideas.
It’s the Grinch edition of Offscript! This week, our editors talk about holiday shows and the people who watch them (hint: it’s not us). Plus, Suzy interviews 10-year-old Chicago theatre critic Ada Grey (a.k.a. the smartest 10-year-old you will ever meet).
This is clearly a teaching moment about race and justice in the U.S. Here’s a list of plays—new and old, all of them eerily timely—that speak to this essential American struggle.
Ellen Greene returns to the “Little Shop of Horrors,” Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry throw a “Wild Party,” and Jonathan Groff sings about “A New Brain” at City Center’s Off-Broadway series.
The master director taught me to find the event in every scene—an easy lesson to remember, since each session with him was an event in itself.
From little black dresses to jeans, bicycles to balloons, six memorable reinventions of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” from 2014 (not counting the movie).
The current artist-at-large at Geva Theatre Center is stepping into a new role in Lowell, Mass.
Alongside Scrooge and the Cratchits you’ll find Crumpet, Ralphie and George Bailey, as well as some fun alternative-holiday offerings and some intriguing counter-programming.
A physical-theatre phenom created in 1979 by Jerry Mouawad and Carol Triffle, ‘FROGZ’ brings together acrobatics and animals, and unites audiences of all ages.