Playwright Rajiv Joseph Wonders: How Do Two Men Kill Beauty?
In his funny, heartrending new play ‘Guards at the Taj,’ the writer of ‘Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo’ and ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ asks big questions through two small lives.
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Let’s Be Realistic: Can Theatre Beat Film at Recreating Life?
The native language of theatre is artifice, but as Annie Baker’s ‘John’ proves, it doesn’t always feel that way.
Two New Riffs on an Ancient Legend Share a Mission: Free Salomé!
Two wildly different new versions unveil the woman behind the myth.
What Price Goodness? Ten Thousand Things and the LAPD Have Kept Accounts
Two new books look at companies that serve audiences outside the institutional theatre’s cocoon of privilege.
Brothers Work It Out in Idris Goodwin’s ‘Bars and Measures’
The real-life story of jailhouse meetings between two music-loving siblings is the basis of a new play at B Street Theatre.
Lynn Manning, Poetry in Motion
This Los Angeles playwright/performer didn’t let blindness keep him from seeing the world.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Musical
The American musical is in fine shape, both its brand-new and revival corps. This wasn’t always the case.
The Cabinet Behind Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
Like its subject, the new musical’s author has close aides and allies, including director Thomas Kail, music director Alex Lacamoire, and the Public’s Oskar Eustis.
Staging a Play, on a Smartphone, on the Staten Island Ferry
For just $2, an audience member can download a play to their phone, hop on board, and have a personal theatrical experience.
Turnovers at the Top: Change the Twin Cities Can Believe In?
Leadership transitions at Mu Performing Arts, Penumbra Theatre, and the Guthrie Theater raise questions as well as expectations for the future.
