Offscript: Susan Booth and a Wild Party
Susan Booth, artistic director of Alliance Theatre, defines white privilege and explains why she doesn’t do classics. Also, the editors talk the Count and ‘The Wild Party.’
All Stories About Showcase
Marga Gomez’s Love/Hate Letter to Her Lesbian Role Models
In her raunchy new solo show ‘Pound,’ the solo performer takes on filmic stereotypes—and tries to one-up crude male comics.
An Alternate New-Play Universe by the Bay
Over two weekends, writers at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival get two passes at their work, and their needs are as different as their plays.
Radiohole Returns to Gooey Form With ‘Tarzana’
They may have lost their regular Brooklyn performance space, but Radiohole is back with another inimitable mess.
WTF Is Happening in Philadelphia
Sisters are doing it for themselves in the city of brotherly love with a new women’s theatre festival.
No Loading Dock? For Jobsite Theater’s ‘Annapurna,’ No Problem
The design team explains how they constructed an Airstream trailer—and the Rocky Mountains—inside a low-ceilinged black box.
The Gender Parity Count Ticks Up—Slightly
A new Dramatist Guild/Lilly Awards study shows encouraging trends in new-play productions by women nationwide, and there’s nowhere to go but up.
Re: the ‘Re’ in Theatre
Why do we spell it ‘theatre’? As with many questions of language, there’s a simple answer but not a ‘right’ one.
A ‘Wild’ Coincidence Revisited
A new concert staging of Andrew Lippa’s ‘The Wild Party’ rekindles comparisons with Michael John LaChuisa’s version from the same bygone season.
4 Ways Theatre Critics Can Be a Little Bit Less Racist
Sometimes theatre journalists write insensitive things. We all have unconscious biases, after all—but we can do better.
