Keep Your Hands Off of My Kimono, White People
Appropriation is about more than facepaint; it’s about pretending that minority cultures are metaphors or fantasy worlds or backdrops for white narratives.
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Rachel Chavkin’s Great Comet of a Career
For the busy director, who also heads the TEAM, theatre is a continual search for the miraculous.
Remembering the Gentle, Persistent, Calm, Avid Mark Rucker
The late director was expert at new plays, musicals, and classics, and as sensitive with actors as with design. Another art he mastered: friendship.
Adrienne Truscott’s Raw, Rapey Vagina Monologue
Jokes about sexual assault seldom have the double-edged bite of Truscott’s riotous, disturbing solo show ‘Asking for It.’
The Top 10 Most-Produced Plays of the 2015–16 Season
Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Disgraced,’ a new entry, tops the list, alongside other new entries and some returning favorites.
The Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2015–16 Season
This year’s top playwright won a Pulitzer for his first play (and we published it).
Bill Rauch: Oregon Shakes’s ‘And’ Man
The theatre’s idealistic leader isn’t resting on its considerable laurels but pushing it to be more, and do more, all the time.
‘Pot Mom’ Gets Relit in Nashville, and I’m Having Flashbacks
Justin Tanner’s great 1990s comedies taught me about the beautiful impermanence of theatre. But artists keep creating, and plays can be revived. Maybe you can go home again.
Philadelphia Fringe: It’s a Party, It’s a Sporting Event, It’s a Moving Target
The annual festival takes over the ‘City of Neighborhoods’ with new work and new forms.
A Cast of Cast-Aside Characters in Lisa Loomer’s ‘Homefree’
The city-bred playwright has gotten to know another America in rural Oregon, where both liberal and conservative communities are failing their young people.
