On Darko Tresnjak’s Calendar: More Love, Murder, and Musicals
From obscure classics to populist musicals and thrillers, Hartford Stage artistic director Darko Tresnjak is in the midst of a killer career.
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Jennifer Holliday, From ‘Dreamgirls’ to ‘Sophisticated Ladies’
She may have moved beyond the big bring-the-curtain-down numbers, but the singer can still bring down the house. Next: ZACH Theatre’s Ellington revue.
Horrors! The Audience Is Alive!
It is theatre’s blessing and curse that it shares space with all of humanity—even humans with cell phones.
How Lynn Nottage, Inveterate Wanderer, Found Her Way to Reading and ‘Sweat’
The playwright of ‘Ruined’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’ talks about her new play, inspired by America’s ‘de-industrial revolution’ and bowing this month at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
The Infamous iPhone Incident at ‘Hand to God’: Theatre Could Use a Charge Like That
One audience member trying to plug his phone into a Broadway set is not the end of civilization—nor should a ‘why not’ attitude be entirely unwelcome in the theatre.
TCG in Cleveland: Shining Light on a Future That’s Already Here
With a renewed focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion, the 25th conference brought together the nation’s theatremakers to share strategies and challenges, as well as drinks and laughs.
The Future of the Past in Jordan Harrison’s ‘Marjorie Prime’
A new play about loss and memory contemplates a world full of eternal afterimages—‘primes’—that can learn to look and act like us. But how will they feel?
Dramaturgs of the World, Unite—and Parse This Text
A collection of 85 essays offers a definitive sampler of views, analyses, and advice about this new, still occasionally mistrusted craft.
Georgia Ensemble Theatre, a.k.a. the Farley Family Business
The theatre brought Bob Farley and Anita Allen together nearly 50 years ago, and they’ve been intertwining their lives and their work ever since.
Gertrude Stein and Gertrude Stein Again
A new revival of Frank Galati and Stephen Flaherty’s ‘Loving Repeating’ celebrates the life and language of the influential American expat writer.
