Lyric Stage Sheds New Light on ‘Lady in the Dark’
The company’s landmark recreation of the Weill/Gershwin/Hart musical from 1941 sets out to recapture the show’s original glamour.
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Sacred Fools Wins Big at Pro-99-Seat Rally, a.k.a. L.A. Stage Raw Awards
The inheritor of the defunct L.A. Weekly Awards honored the town’s 99-seat-and-under theatres, which are feeling besieged at the moment.
Humana 2015: Pig Iron Launches a Gay Space Opera
Inspired equally by ‘Star Wars’ and Charles Ludlam, the Philly troupe’s ‘I Promised Myself to Live Faster’ explores the intersection of tween sexual awakening and sci-fi fantasy.
If You Are What You Do, I Guess I’m Not a Playwright Anymore
Retiring from a creative calling that never really paid my bills has been much harder than I’d imagined—but it seems to have already happened anyway.
Pièces de résistance in Budapest, With an Emphasis on the Resistance
Political corruption bleeds into private lives as boundaries are breached in performances at Hungary’s dunaPart3 showcase. (Part 2 of 2)
Judith Malina: A Vibrant Tremor
The Living Theatre cofounder embodied ‘beautiful, nonviolent anarchist revolution’ in her life and her art.
PJ Paparelli Stages a Chicago Housing Crisis
American Theater Company’s docutheatre piece ‘The Project(s)’ takes up residence at the intersection of poverty, race and real estate.
Hungarian Theatre and Its Government Inspectors
In the face of the country’s continuing rightward drift, independent theatres show their mettle at Budapest’s dunaPart3 festival. (Part 1 of 2)
Theatre Alliance and ‘Colossal’ Win Big at Helen Hayes Awards
TheatreWashington showered more awards than ever on D.C. theatre at the newly reorganized Helen Hayes Awards.
Anna Deavere Smith to Preview New Work as Part of NEH Lecture
The playwright/performer will speak about her search for the American character, including pieces from work-in-progress about the school-to-prison pipeline.
