This Month in Theatre History
The first production to use electric lighting, a tragic theatre fire, a Broadway landmark, an Asian American icon, and a James Baldwin musical adaptation.
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This Month in Theatre History
November recalls the play Lincoln first saw Booth in, Kern’s Princess Theatre musicals, a Puerto Rican literary godfather, a gospel Oedipus musical, and a century-defining epic.
‘Sign’ of the Times: Lorraine Hansberry’s 2nd Play Gets 2 New Looks
A forgotten chapter of mid-20th-century theatre history is about to be restored, as ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ is restaged in Seattle and Brooklyn.
The Play That Got Away: A History of ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’
Lorraine Hansberry’s long-awaited sophomore effort was greeted coolly, even confusedly, in 1964, but ambivalence—about art, activism, and their fraught intersection—has always been in the play’s DNA.
Rachel Brosnahan Reads the ‘Sign’ in Iris Brustein’s Window
For her first stage role in a while, the ‘Mrs. Maisel’ actor is ready to embrace the role of another imperfect but lovable woman performer in a rocky marriage.
BAM Names David Binder To Be Its New Artistic Director
Binder will take the reins in December, when longtime executive producer Joseph V. Melillo steps down.
Joseph V. Melillo to Depart Brooklyn Academy of Music
Melillo’s departure is part of a series of planned leadership transitions.
Hugh Hardy: Bringing Life to Buildings
The designer and restorer of some of his city’s most iconic theatre spaces was something of a New York icon himself.
How to Fight for Arts Funding? Lessons from NYC’s Lean Years
The new book ‘Drop Dead’ puts a debate we’re still having—between art for art’s sake and art for the common good—into stark relief.
Druid of Galway’s Ageless ‘Beauty Queen’
Daughter becomes mother in the Irish company’s 20th-anniversary staging of Martin McDonagh’s landmark play, which now tours the U.S.
