Cal Shakes’s Revels Now Are Ended
The venerable East Bay theatre, which offered classics outdoors for 50 years, is another casualty of the punishing economics of theatre since the end of the Covid lockdown.
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Editor’s Note: Before the Fall
Our season preview and most-produced plays lists show a theatre scene still feeling the effects of contraction but continuing to show up for the work against steep odds.
Elizabeth Marvel, Hearing the Voices of America
In the new docu-theatre piece ‘The Ford/Hill Project,’ the words of Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill—and their interrogators—live again onstage.
The Sound of Hysteria
Deaf and hearing artists are looking for the timeless rage in a new staging of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot,’ a collaboration between Deaf West Theatre and Center Theatre Group.
A Eulogical Elegy With Rhyming Ululations in Remembrance of Ken Page
A tribute from one seeker-clown to another.
A Stripped-Down ‘Streetcar’ Rolls West
A new 4-actor version of Williams’s classic, which played last year at alternative NYC spaces, is headed for L.A., then Yale.
Managing Director Dean R. Gladden to Retire From Alley Theatre
After 19 years at the Texas theatre and decades of leadership at U.S. theatres, Gladden will step down on June 30, 2025.
IndieSpace Releases Report on Giving to NYC Theatres
Program highlights include updates on funding, real estate, community resources, and advocacy
This Month in Theatre History
Bookended with plays by Black women writers across the span of a century, this month’s survey includes the founding of an influential political theatre, a path-breaking First Nations narrative, and more.
The Subtext: Rachel Jendrzejewski on Presence, Poland, and Padua
This month Brian speaks with the Playwrights’ Center core writer and co-artistic director of Minneapolis’s Red Eye about chance encounters and her relationship to future thinking.
