Mark Brokaw: Class, Wit, and True Collaboration
A friend and colleague remembers the director as a private but passionate man who treated new plays like classics, and classics like new plays.
A friend and colleague remembers the director as a private but passionate man who treated new plays like classics, and classics like new plays.
A far-ranging conversation about their common approach to text as a springboard, why they’re past theory, and how they introduced Jessica Lange to Viewpoints.
In her early days as the org’s producing artistic director, she discusses process and the state of new-play development in American theatre.
California gets its first theatre and a grand pageant, a choreographer preserves classic Broadway dance, and an early Paula Vogel work is staged in Canada.
The writers of ‘Vatican Falls,’ ‘How I Learned to Drive,’ and ‘Downstate’ take varied approaches to depicting pedophiles—and reckoning with what they deserve.
The virtual start-up from Paula Vogel will work with the McCarter for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons, starting with a re-release of Eisa Davis’s ‘Bulrusher.’
Her ‘Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson)’ imagines a protected Black state founded after a second Civil War.
The company’s virtual platform will feature archived stage productions, audio plays, and new works by the CTG Creative Collective.
An especially strong week of archival recordings and live readings of buzzy plays.
The playwright looks forward to opening nights, and a theatre we no longer take for granted, on the other side of COVID-19.