By Matthew Sigman
Savvy impresarios and imaginative companies are redefining “opera,” infusing the genre with a new wave of theatricality
Those Magic Changes
By Rob Weinert-Kendt
The Ameircan musical is changing keys and adding new voices. Scott Miller’s small theatre in St. Louis is keeping score
YouTubesicals
By Suzy Evans
The Internet is reinventing how musical theatre is distributed and licensed—and even how shows written
The complete text of Lauren Gunderson’s charming play about a connection sparked by a Walt Whitman homework assignment.
PLUS: A conversation between Gunderson and Margaret Edson
DEPARTMENTS:
Editor’s Note
From the Executive Director
Talking About Money
News in Brief
Incubator Arts Projects says farewell; Contemporary American Theatre Festival and Mass Live Arts stage new work;
Front & Center
The Hypocrites’s All Our Tragic
Team Sunshine Performance Corporation and West Philadelphia’s Shakespeare in Clark Park (SCP)’s Henry IV: Your Prince and Mine
Stupid Fucking Bird at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Sex With Strangers at Second Stage
Kings of Unionville at Tipping Point Theatre
Stop Hitting Yourself from the Rude MechsCritic’s Notebook
Tracy Young travels through A Wrinkle in Time at OSF, by Evan Henerson