Theatre: A Counterweight for Heavy Times
The nonprofit theatre’s mandate to serve as a town hall, a sort of secular church for the democratic spirit, has seldom been more salient.
All Stories About politics
A Statement of Hope
What can the theatre bring to this moment of national uncertainty? Our art, our activism, and each other.
The Theatre of Trump
How has this unlikely presidential candidate gotten so far? By setting the stage and giving the performance of a lifetime.
Offscript: Judicial Drama With Derrick Wang
This week’s guest is composer Derrick Wang, whose opera ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ is an exercise in bipartisanship. Plus, the editors discuss politics and artists’ compensation.
‘Daisy’: The Campaign Ad That Dropped a Bomb on American Politics
A new play about LBJ’s infamous mushroom-cloud commercial mines its political relevance—and its deeper implications for our uncsoncious fears.
Winner Takes All
An actress rides shotgun on the rough-and-tumble development of David Edgar’s epic ‘Continental Divide.’
A New Progressivism
A generative politics, wedding activism by both citizens and the state, has as strong role for the nation’s nonprofit sector.
