Reunited Twins + Two Adaptations = ‘Double Trouble’
This new version of ‘The Parent Trap’ story, about teen girls separated by a divorce, draws on the German original but updates it for the contemporary U.S.
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Emily Mann: The Quiet Radical
In 1990, the theatre’s board gambled on a young writer/director with an agenda. It’s paid off: Mann built a team around her vision, attracted new audiences, and steered the company through both crisis and triumph.
Have You Met Miss (Rhodessa) Jones? She Owns the Earth and Sky
She comes from a large family of theatremakers. Is it any wonder she makes family, and theatre, everywhere she goes, from Cultural Odyssey to the California’s prisons?
Curating Emotion and Blowing Minds at Mass Live Arts
Andrew Schneider’s synesthetic masterwork ‘YOUARENOWHERE’ kicks off another summer of barrier-breaking performance at the Berkshires fest.
The Welders Get Ready to Pass the Torch to a New Crew of Theatremakers
The D.C.–based playwrights collective has found their replacements, who’ll take over in 2016 and steer the company in some new directions.
Puppets: Still Very Much a Thing
As today’s cutting-edge puppeteers peer into the souls of animated objects, they’re seeing the future—or rather, the eternal present—of the theatre.
Dave Malloy’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Rachmaninoff
The ‘Great Comet’ composer returns to Russia for ‘Preludes,’ and this time it’s personal.
Pay Your Money, Take Your Chances: Is This Any Way to Run a Theatre Review Site?
This year, Bitter Lemons’ annual critic’s panel wasn’t a discussion of the state of L.A. theatre criticism so much as a defense of the website’s controversial pay-for-review policy.
The Kilroys Make Another List of Plays by Women You Should Know
As the impact of their first list is still being felt, the group announces a new list that reflects steps to increase the diversity of voices.
#TCG15 Plenary 4: Life-Saving, Game-Changing, and Stories That Matter
The TCG conference closed with a panel of artistic leaders discussing artistic risk vs. institution-building, and feted two dedicated field veterans, Rhodessa Jones and Jim O’Quinn.
