Turning Nashville’s Moment into New-Play Momentum
Plays in Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab go from seedling to sapling. The town’s new-play scene, and the appetite for it, is growing, too.
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Great Plains Theatre Conference: A Homecoming of the Mind
One week each year, a Nebraska campus becomes a hub for playwrights to rekindle camaraderie and dreams—oh, and present some fierce new work.
‘Zombie: The American’ Occupies the White House
Robert O’Hara’s new play for Woolly Mammoth mixes Jacobean drama with political satire and the zombie apocalypse to make a statement about the undead way we live now.
Mixed Blood Puts Money Behind a Body of Disability Work
The theatre’s Disability Visibility Project aims to encourage more productions from a growing theatrical literature, and more work for disabled artists.
Christine Howey Traces Her Transgender Journey in ‘Exact Change’
She already crossed a gender line. Now this northeast Ohio critic is crossing another barrier to become a playwright/performer.
Al Hirschfeld’s Life Drawing
A new exhibit at the New York Historical Society and a new book celebrate both the timeliness and the timelessness of the caricaturist’s work.
In Cleveland, Theatre Is Helping to Stage an Urban Renaissance
The site for the 2015 TCG conference is a city on the rebound, and Cleveland Play House and Cleveland Public Theatre are key players in the upsurge.
‘Washeteria’ Puts Children’s Theatre Through the Rinse Cycle
How set designer Louisa Thompson, and the creative team at Soho Rep, turned an empty storefront into a hyper-realistic yet fantastical laundromat.
With ‘Paper Planet’ and the Toddler Takeover, the Playscape’s the Thing
At a three-day festival led by the Alliance Theatre, and in an Aussie import at the New Victory Theatre, theatre for the very young is growing up fast.
‘Black and Blue’ Brings the Ferguson Moment Back Home
Ten months after the killing of Michael Brown, playwright Lee Patton Chiles conjures voices from the struggle on a nearby stage.
