Aunt Ester’s Children: A Century On Stage
The author looks back on the beginnings and development of his 10-play cycle, singling out one character as the most significant.
The author looks back on the beginnings and development of his 10-play cycle, singling out one character as the most significant.
The rise and fall…and rise of ‘Seussical.’
Or, how visual arts audiences got comfortable with radical innovation, while theatre audiences didn’t.
Political trepidation translates to unfocused theatre at Humana Festival.
Identity and cultural authenticity are dramatic fodder for William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
An interview with Melissa James Gibson about her play ‘Brooklyn Bridge.’
An interview with Richard Foreman about his play ‘The Gods Are Pounding My Head!’
African-American masculinity–and black womanhood–are examined in August Wilson’s oeuvre.
Actors are subject to both the pleasures of imitation and the rigors of an exalted calling—an excerpt from “Letters to a Young Actor.”
The playwright’s nephew tried to capture acting’s transcendent dimensions—an excerpt from ‘The Other Chkehov: A Biography of Michael Chekhov.’