Misha’s Next Moves
As if running a Manhattan arts center weren’t enough, Mikhail Baryshnikov has two new solo shows on his dance card.
All Stories About Showcase
Dance or Theatre? Yes.
From Martha Clarke at Signature Theatre to Third Rail Projects at the Denver Center, resident theatres are partnering with dance-theatre companies to create genre-bending bodies of work.
He Said, She Said, and Then They Made a Show Together
How Megan Trout and Mark Jackson created the dance/theatre/social media duet ‘Now for Now.’
Writing TV, Thinking Theatre—But With Less Urgency
The transition from writing for nothing to writing for a paycheck has been smooth. But is stage work now a dream, or just a daydream?
A Change in the Weather: Theatres Are Tackling Global Warming
Theatremakers are acting on environmental issues and bringing concerns about climate change to the stage.
Lev Dodin Plants Chekhov’s ‘Cherry Orchard’ in the Eternal Present
The master director from St. Petersburg takes some liberties with the playwright’s final work, but the result is somehow all the more Chekhovian.
What Was the Wooster Group Thinking With Pinter’s ‘The Room’?
After percolating for nearly 40 years, the Group’s notion of staging Pinter finally clicked after a trip to China. But for now this door has closed.
‘All New’ Plays Take the Stage at Alley Theatre
The Houston company tries its hand at new-play development for the first time.
Lou Diamond Phillips’s ‘Burning Desire’: To Get Back Onstage
The versatile actor makes his playwriting debut with a romantic comedy in which he plays—who else?—the devil.
Southern Rep’s Aimée Hayes, En Avant!
After years without the anchor of a home base, the leader of New Orleans’s preeminent theatre is steering the company to a snug new harbor.
